Lens regeneration in Xenopus is not a mere repeat of lens development, with respect to crystallin gene expression

Differentiation

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 143-149

  Mizuno, Nobuhiko ^a,c   Mochii, Makoto ^a,b   Takahashi, Tadashi C ^a   Eguchi, Goro ^a,b   Okada, T S ^a,b  

^a Biohistory Research Hall ^*  (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; BETA CRYSTALLIN; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; LENS; LENS EPITHELIUM; LENS FIBER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE REGENERATION;

XENOPUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032946166     PISSN: 03014681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-0436.1999.6430143.x     Document Type: Article

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