Cellular and molecular features of lens differentiation: A review of recent advances

Differentiation

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 77-93

  Wride, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GROWTH FACTOR;

APOPTOSIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOSKELETON; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; HOMEOBOX; LENS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; CYTOSKELETON; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EYE PROTEINS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; FORECASTING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION-INHIBITORY FACTORS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0029730560     PISSN: 03014681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-0436.1996.6120077.x     Document Type: Review

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