Distribution of the regulatory peptide alarin in the eye of various species

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 106, Issue , 2013, Pages 74-81

  Schrödl, Falk ^a   Trost, Andrea ^a   Strohmaier, Clemens ^a   Bogner, Barbara ^a   Runge, Christian ^a   Kaser Eichberger, Alexandra ^a   Eberhard, Nicole ^a,b   Santic, Radmila ^a,c   Kofler, Barbara ^a   Reitsamer, Herbert A ^a  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b LKH Leoben   (Austria)

^c AFFiRiS GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Blood flow regulation; Immune defense; Innervation; Neuropetide

Indexed keywords

ALARIN; CD31 ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; CHOROID; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; EYE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; RETINA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD31; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD VESSELS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EYE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GALANIN-LIKE PEPTIDE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84870952237     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2012.11.009     Document Type: Article

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