Calponin distribution in human ciliary muscle and other anterior segment tissues

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 349-356

  Kashiwagi, Kenji ^a   Lindsey, James D ^a   Kashiwagi, Fumiko ^a   Tsukahara, Shigeo ^b   Weinreb, Robert N ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

smooth muscle actin; anterior segment; calponin; ciliary muscle; immunocytochemistry

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CALPONIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; CILIARY MUSCLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IRIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCLERA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CALMODULIN-BINDING PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CILIARY BODY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE CELLS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FIBROBLASTS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH;

EID: 0031045648     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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