Understanding age-related macular degeneration (AMD): Relationships between the photoreceptor/retinal pigment epithelium/Bruch's membrane/choriocapillaris complex

Molecular Aspects of Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 295-317

  Bhutto, Imran ^a   Lutty, Gerard ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Bruch's membrane; Choriocapillaris; Photoreceptors; Retinal pigment epithelium

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; BLINDNESS; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CHOROID CAPILLARY LAYER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUSEN; EXOCYTOSIS; EXUDATIVE MACULAR DEGENERATION; EYE BLOOD FLOW; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOXIC CELL; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INNERVATION; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CHOROID; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MACULAR DEGENERATION; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM;

EID: 84863727273     PISSN: 00982997     EISSN: 18729452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2012.04.005     Document Type: Review

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