A critical role for the optic vesicle in lens development; A reinvestigation of free lens formation in Cynops pyrrhogaster

Differentiation

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 247-252

  Mizuno, Nobuhiko ^a   Mochii, Makoto ^b   Takagi, Chiyo ^b   Takahashi, Tadashi C ^a   Eguchi, Goro ^c   Okada, T S ^a  

^a Biohistory Research Hall ^*  (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN; LENS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; LENS; LENS FIBER; NEWT; NONHUMAN; OPTIC LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031668866     PISSN: 03014681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002580050249     Document Type: Article

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