Microglia in the outer retina and their relevance to pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 723, Issue , 2012, Pages 37-42

  Ma, Wenxin ^a   Zhao, Lian ^a   Wong, Wai T ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age Related Macular Degeneration; Angiogenesis; Cell Cell Interactions; Chemokines; Cytokines; Inflammation; Microglia; Retinal Pigment Epithelium

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CYTOKINE; VASCULOTROPIN ANTIBODY;

CELL ACTIVATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOREGULATION; INNER RETINA; MICROGLIA; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; OUTER RETINA; PATHOGENESIS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION;

CELL COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MICROGLIA; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RETINA; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM;

EID: 84863400997     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0631-0_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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