Downregulation of mitochondrial connexin 43 by high glucose triggers mitochondrial shape change and cytochrome c release in retinal endothelial cells

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 6675-6681

  Trudeau, Kyle ^a   Muto, Tetsuya ^a   Roy, Sayon ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; CYTOCHROME C; GLUCOSE; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; SWEETENING AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; DOWN REGULATION; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MITOCHONDRIAL VOLUME; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RETINA CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SECRETION (PROCESS); ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; CYTOCHROMES C; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOWN-REGULATION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; GLUCOSE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MITOCHONDRIA; RATS; RETINAL VESSELS; SWEETENING AGENTS;

EID: 84871875952     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-9895     Document Type: Article

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