Multi-level communication of human retinal pigment epithelial cells via tunneling nanotubes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Wittig, Dierk ^a   Wang, Xiang ^b   Walter, Cindy ^a   Gerdes, Hans Hermann ^b   Funk, Richard H W ^a,c   Roehlecke, Cora ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c CENTER FOR REGENERATIVE THERAPIES DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

F ACTIN; LATRUNCULIN B; LUCIFER YELLOW; NANOTUBE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL TRANSFER; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLYMERIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOANALYSIS; ORGANELLE SIZE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CELL LINE; CELL ORGANELLE; CYTOLOGY; ENDOCYTOSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINE; ENDOCYTOSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; MICROTUBULES; NANOTUBES; ORGANELLES; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM;

EID: 84863338366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033195     Document Type: Article

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