TUDCA promotes phagocytosis by retinal pigment epithelium via MerTK activation

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2511-2518

  Murase, Hiromi ^a   Tsuruma, Kazuhiro ^a   Shimazawa, Masamitsu ^a   Hara, Hideaki ^a  

^a GIFU PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Phagocytosis; Retinal pigment epithelium; TUDCA

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MER TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR; TAUROURSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MERTK PROTEIN, HUMAN; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; TAUROCHENODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL VIABILITY ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGING ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DISEASE; VISION; WESTERN BLOTTING; AGED; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG;

AGED; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DEATH; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RETINAL PHOTORECEPTOR CELL OUTER SEGMENT; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; SWINE; TAUROCHENODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

EID: 84939551088     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-15962     Document Type: Article

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