The use of cultured human fetal retinal pigment epithelium in studies of the classical retinoid visual cycle and retinoid-based disease processes

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 126, Issue , 2014, Pages 46-50

  Hu, Jane ^a   Bok, Dean ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complement activation; Retinal pigment epithelium; Retinoid visual cycle; RPE cell culture

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; RETINOID; RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINOID VISUAL CYCLE; RPE CELL CULTURE;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; FETUS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINOIDS; RETINOL-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84906507143     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2013.09.009     Document Type: Article

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