A rho-associated protein kinase: Differentially distributed in limbal and corneal epithelia

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1266-1272

  SundarRaj, Nirmala ^a,b   Kinchington, Paul R ^a   Wessel, Howard ^a   Goldblatt, Brad ^a   Hassell, John ^a   Vergnes, Jean Paul ^a   Anderson, Susan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BINDING PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RAS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LIMBUS; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RABBITS; RATS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STEM CELLS;

EID: 0031834786     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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