Cultured chicken embryo lens cells resemble differentiating fiber cells in vivo and contain two kinetic pools of connexin56

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 475-484

  Berthoud, Viviana M ^a   Bassnett, Steven ^b   Beyer, Eric C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Connexin; Endoplasmic reticulum; Gap junction; Lens; N cadherin; Turnover

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO; GAP JUNCTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LENS EPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 0033120534     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exer.1998.0635     Document Type: Article

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