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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prog Retin Eye Res. 2014 Dec 5;0:1–29. doi: 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2014.11.005

Fig. 12.

Fig. 12

The human choriocapillaris has functional binding sites for LDL. Top, While the major site of LDL uptake is in choroidal macrophages, organ cultures of RPE/choroid exposed to fluorescent LDL show uptake in the choriocapillaris (CC), arrows. Bottom, Immunohistochemistry with anti-LDL receptor antibodies show labeling in choriocapillaris endothelial cells (CC, arrows), Dr, druse. See also Tserentsoodol et al. (2006).