Ultrastructural and molecular analysis of Bowman's layer corneal dystrophies: An epithelial origin?

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 3286-3292

  Ridgway, A E A ^a   Akhtar, S ^a   Munier, F L ^a   Schorderet, D F ^a   Stewart, H ^a   Perveen, R ^a   Bonshek, R E ^a   Odenthal, M T P ^a   Dixon, M ^a   Barraquer, R ^a   Escoto, R ^a   Black, G C M ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOWMAN MEMBRANE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DNA DETERMINATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HETERODUPLEX ANALYSIS; HUMAN; KERATOPLASTY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0033775468     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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