Hyaluronan synthase expression in bovine eyes

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 563-567

  Usui, Tomohiko ^a   Suzuki, Kaori ^a   Kaji, Yuichi ^a   Amano, Shiro ^a   Miyata, Kazunori ^b   Heldin, Paraskevi ^d   Yamashita, Hidetoshi ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Miyata Eye Hospital   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; HYALURONIC ACID; SYNTHETASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WOUND HEALING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; CILIARY BODY; CONJUNCTIVA; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EPITHELIUM; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; ISOENZYMES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; TRANSFERASES; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0032979694     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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