Downregulation of connexin 43 promotes vascular cell loss and excess permeability associated with the development of vascular lesions in the diabetic retina

Molecular Vision

Volumn 20, Issue , 2014, Pages 732-741

  Tien, Thomas ^a   Muto, Tetsuya ^a   Barrette, Kevin ^a   Challyandra, Lucky ^a   Roy, Sayon ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CONNEXIN 43; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE DEXTRAN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD RETINA BARRIER; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CELL DEATH; CELL LOSS; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DOWN REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERICYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA CAPILLARY; RETINAL THICKNESS; STREPTOZOTOCIN-INDUCED DIABETES MELLITUS; VASCULAR LESION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CAPILLARIES; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CONNEXIN 43; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DOWN-REGULATION; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINAL VESSELS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84901944233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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