E-cadherin transforms embryonic corneal fibroblasts to stratified epithelium with desmosomes

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 87-104

  Vanderburg, C R ^a   Hay, E D ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chick; Cornea; E cadherin; Epithelium; Mesenchymal epithelial transformation

Indexed keywords

UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHICK EMBRYO; CORNEA; DESMOSOME; EMBRYO; EPITHELIUM; FIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; COLLAGEN; CONNEXIN 43; CORNEA; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DESMOPLAKINS; DESMOSOMES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; FIBROBLASTS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LAMININ; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MESODERM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; STROMAL CELLS; TRANSFECTION; VIMENTIN;

EID: 0030428267     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: 14226421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000147870     Document Type: Article

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