Keratin 12-deficient mice have fragile corneal epithelia

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 37, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 2572-2584

  Kao, Winston W Y ^a   Liu, Chia Yang ^a   Converse, Richard L ^a   Shiraishi, Atsushi ^a   Kao, Candace W C ^a   Ishizaki, Masamichi ^a   Doetschman, Thomas ^a   Duffy, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

corneal epithelial defect; differentiation; gene targeting; keratin 12; mouse

Indexed keywords

KERATIN; KERATIN 12; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CYTOLYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; DNA PRIMERS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KERATINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0030475766     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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