Mouse models of congenital cataract

Eye (Basingstoke)

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 438-444

  Graw, Jochen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aphakia; Hereditary cataract; Linkage analysis; Mouse model; Nuclear opacity; Vacuolated lens

Indexed keywords

GAMMA CRYSTALLIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOME 10; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CORNEA; EXON; GENETIC LINKAGE; IRIS; LENS FIBER; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; RETINA;

EID: 0032815059     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.1999.118     Document Type: Article

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