Diabetes mellitus leads to accumulation of dendritic cells and nerve fiber damage of the subbasal nerve plexus in the cornea

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3603-3615

  Leppin, Katja ^a   Behrendt, Ann Kathrin ^a   Reichard, Maria ^a   Stachs, Oliver ^a   Guthoff, Rudolf F ^a   Baltrusch, Simone ^a   Eule, Johanna C ^b   Vollmar, Brigitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dendritic cells; Diabetes mellitus; Subbasal nerve plexus

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; GLYCOPROTEIN P 15095; STREPTOZOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL DENSITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DENDRITIC CELL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVE PLEXUS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DENDRITIC CELLS; DIABETES MELLITUS; SUBBASAL NERVE PLEXUS;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; DENDRITIC CELLS; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE FIBERS; OPHTHALMIC NERVE;

EID: 84902531061     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-14307     Document Type: Article

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