The eye lens cytoskeleton

Eye (Basingstoke)

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 409-416

  Quinlan, R A ^a   Sandilands, A ^a   Procter, J E ^a   Prescott, A R ^a   Hutcheson, A M ^a   Dahm, R ^a   Gribbon, C ^a   Wallace, P ^a   Carter, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CP49; Cytoskeleton; Differentiation; Filensin; Intermediate filaments; Lens

Indexed keywords

FILENSIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; LENS PROTEIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POLARITY; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GOLGI COMPLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; LENS; LENS EPITHELIUM; LENS FIBER; MITOCHONDRION; REVIEW;

EID: 0032812753     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.1999.115     Document Type: Article

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