Studying melanin and lipofuscin in RPE cell culture models

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 126, Issue , 2014, Pages 61-67

  Boulton, Michael E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

A2E; Cell culture; Lipofuscin; Melanin; Melanosomes; RPE

Indexed keywords

A2E; LIPOFUSCIN; MELANIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; RETINAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; AUTOPHAGY; CELL CULTURE; CYTOSOL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; LYSOSOME; MELANOGENESIS; MELANOSOME; NONHUMAN; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PIGMENTATION; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM;

A2E; CELL CULTURE; LIPOFUSCIN; MELANIN; MELANOSOMES; RPE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; LIPOFUSCIN; MELANINS; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM;

EID: 84906492552     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2014.01.016     Document Type: Article

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