Human and monkey trabecular meshwork accumulate αB-crystallin in response to heat shock and oxidative stress

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2402-2413

  Tamm, Ernst R ^a   Russell, Paul ^a   Johnson, Douglas H ^b   Piatigorsky, Joram ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

anterior eye segment; crystallin; Northern blot analysis; small heat shock protein; two dimensional gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; BETA CRYSTALLIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; HEAT SHOCK; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CRYSTALLINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; HEAT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MACACA MULATTA; MIDDLE AGED; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

EID: 0029847454     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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