Transglutaminase activity in the eye: Cross-linking in epithelia and connective tissue structures

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2780-2787

  Raghunath, Michael ^a   Cankay, Rasim ^a   Kubitscheck, Ulrich ^a   Fauteck, Jan Dirk ^a   Mayne, Richard ^b   Aeschlimann, Daniel ^c   Schlötzer Schrehardt, Ursula ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRILLIN; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CILIARY BODY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; ELASTIC FIBER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME POLYMORPHISM; ENZYME PURIFICATION; EYE DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LENS SUBLUXATION; MARFAN SYNDROME; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; RETINA DETACHMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EYE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGLUTAMINASES;

EID: 0032754607     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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