Molecular basis of the inner blood-retinal barrier and its breakdown in diabetic macular edema and other pathological conditions

Progress in Retinal and Eye Research - Tập 34 - Trang 19-48 - 2013
Ingeborg Klaassen1, Cornelis J.F. Van Noorden2, Reinier O. Schlingemann3,1
1Ocular Angiogenesis Group, Department of Ophthalmology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2Ocular Angiogenesis Group, Department of Cell Biology and Histology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
3Netherlands Institute for Neurosciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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