Restoration of mesenchymal retinal pigmented epithelial cells by TGFβ pathway inhibitors: Implications for age-related macular degeneration

Genome Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Radeke, Monte J ^a   Radeke, Carolyn M ^a   Shih, Ying Hsuan ^a   Hu, Jane ^b   Bok, Dean ^b   Johnson, Lincoln V ^a   Coffey, Pete J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2;

AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTGF GENE; DISEASE COURSE; EPITHELIUM CELL; FETUS; GDF6 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INHBA GENE; INHBB GENE; MESENCHYME CELL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RETINA PIGMENT CELL; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TGFB1 GENE; TGFB2 GENE; THBS1 GENE;

EID: 84935432115     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1756994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13073-015-0183-x     Document Type: Article

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