Immunoreactive ET-1 in the vitreous humor and epiretinal membranes of patients with proliferative vitreoretinopathy. - Concepedia

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Immunoreactive ET-1 in the vitreous humor and epiretinal membranes of patients with proliferative vitreoretinopathy.

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2005

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Manuela Roldán Pallarés, Raquel Rollín, Aránzazu Mediero, Juan Carlos Martínez-Montero, Arturo Fernández‐Cruz, Carmen Bravo-Llatas, R. Fernández‐Durango

Abstract

IR-ET-1 in human vitreous is elevated in PVR, RD, and IERMs. ET-1 and its receptors ETA and ETB are present in epiretinal tissue of both idiopathic and PVR membranes. These data suggest an involvement of ET-1 in retinal disease.