Alterations in connexin expression and cell communication in healing corneal epithelium

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 600-609

  Matic, Maja ^a   Petrov, Igor N ^a   Rosenfeld, Tovia ^a   Wolosin, J Mario ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

connexin expression; corneal epithelium; gap junctions; metabolic cooperation; wound healing

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MIGRATION; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; DEBRIDEMENT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RABBIT; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CONNEXINS; CORNEA; EPITHELIUM; EYE INJURIES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GAP JUNCTIONS; RABBITS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0030896499     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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