Activation of the Jak-STAT-signaling pathway in embryonic lens cells

Developmental Biology

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 277-292

  Potts, Jay D ^a,b   Kornacker, Sylvia ^b   Beebe, David C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Chicken embryo; Differentiation; Growth control; Janus kinase; Lens; Proliferation; Receptor; STAT; Tyrosine kinase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; CYTOKINE; DACTINOMYCIN; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR; STAT1 PROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN; STAT5 PROTEIN; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO; EPITHELIUM CELL; GROWTH REGULATION; LENS EPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; JANUS;

EID: 0032387125     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.9077     Document Type: Article

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