Potential apoptotic effect of ultraviolet-A irradiation during cross-linking: A study on ex vivo cultivated limbal epithelial cells

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1339-1345

  Matalia, Himanshu ^a   Shetty, Rohit ^a   Dhamodaran, Kamesh ^a   Subramani, Murali ^a   Arokiaraj, Vincent ^a   Das, Debashish ^a  

^a Narayana Health City ^*  (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; RIBOFLAVIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BCL 2 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CYTOTOXICITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; EX VIVO STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RNA EXTRACTION; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; UPREGULATION;

APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RIBOFLAVIN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY;

EID: 84867059940     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2012-301811     Document Type: Article

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