Progressive dysfunction of the retinal pigment epithelium and retina due to increased VEGF-A levels

FASEB Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2369-2379

  Ablonczy, Zsolt ^a   Dahrouj, Mohammad ^a   Marneros, Alexander G ^b,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Choroidal neovascularization; Retinoids; Visual cycle

Indexed keywords

RETINAL; RETINOID; RHODOPSIN; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; GENE LOCUS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETINA; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA NEOVASCULARIZATION; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM DYSFUNCTION; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISION;

AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; RETINOIDS; VISUAL CYCLE;

ANIMALS; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FUNDUS OCULI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RETINA; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINOIDS; RHODOPSIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84901008988     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.13-248021     Document Type: Article

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