Bacterial conjunctivitis in Muc1 null mice

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1328-1335

  Kardon, Rachele ^a,c   Price, Roger E ^a   Julian, JoAnne ^a,d   Lagow, Errin ^a,d   Tseng, Scheffer C G ^e   Gendler, Sandra J ^b   Carson, Daniel D ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLEPHARITIS; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; HARDER GLAND; INFECTION RISK; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

ANIMALS; BLEPHARITIS; CA-15-3 ANTIGEN; CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVITIS, BACTERIAL; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HARDERIAN GLAND; KERATINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 0032976571     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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