Retinal caspases

Lippens, S. et al. Caspase 14 is expressed in the epidermis, the choroid plexus, the retinal pigment epithelium and thymic HassaH s bodies. Cell Death Differ. 10, 257, 2003. 

Katai N, Yoshimura N. 1999. Apoptotic retinal neuronal death by ischemia-reperfusion is executed by two distinct caspase family proteases. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 40 2697-2705. 

Kurokawa T, Katai N, Shibuki H, Kuroiwa S, Kurimoto Y, et al. 1999. BDNF diminishes caspase-2 but not c-Jun immunoreactivity of neurons in retinal ganglion cell layer after transient ischemia. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 40 3006-3011. 

Singh M, Savitz SI, Hoque R, Gupta G, Roth S, et al. 2001. Gell-speciftc caspase expression by different neuronal phenotypes in transient retinal ischemia. J Neurochem 77 466-475. 

Wood JP, Osborne NN. 2001. The influence of zinc on caspase-3 and DNA breakdown in cultured human retinal pigment epithelial cells. Arch Ophthalmol 119 81-88. 

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