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Titles listEffect of photodynamic therapy on the function of the outer blood-retinal barrier in an in vitro model
Titles listEffect of photodynamic therapy on the function of the outer blood-retinal barrier in an in vitro model
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Effect of photodynamic therapy on the function of the outer blood-retinal barrier in an in vitro model |
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| Published in | Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology. 2006, vol. 244, no. 8, p. 1015-1021 | |
| Abstract | Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a well established clinical treatment for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and comprises intravenous injection of verteporfin and subsequent application of a non-thermal laser beam to the area of AMD to induce selective vascular occlusion. Since there is evidence that PDT may cause outer blood-retinal barrier (BRB) breakdown and possibly RPE cell alteration, we investigated the effect of PDT on the BRB function of the RPE in an in vitro model. | |
| Keywords | Blood-Retinal Barrier/physiology — Capillary Permeability/drug effects — Cell Survival — Cells, Cultured — Electric Impedance — Fluorescein/metabolism — Humans — Intercellular Junctions/physiology — Photochemotherapy — Photosensitizing Agents/pharmacology — Pigment Epithelium of Eye/drug effects/physiology/ultrastructure — Porphyrins/pharmacology | |
| Identifiers | PMID: 16421742 | |
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| Citation (ISO format) | MENNEL, Stefan et al. Effect of photodynamic therapy on the function of the outer blood-retinal barrier in an in vitro model. In: Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, 2006, vol. 244, n° 8, p. 1015-1021. doi: 10.1007/s00417-005-0237-7 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:89322 |
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