Measurement of corneal sublayer thickness and transparency in transgenic mice with altered corneal clarity using in vivo confocal microscopy

Vision Research

Volumn 41, Issue 10-11, 2001, Pages 1283-1290

  Jester, James V ^a   Ghee Lee, Young ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Chakravarti, Shukti ^b   Paul, Jennifer ^b   Petroll, W Matthew ^a   Dwight Cavanagh, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Cornea; Digital imaging; Transgenic; Transparency

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CELL DENSITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA OPACITY; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; HAZE; IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT GENE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; THICKNESS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CORNEA; KERATAN SULFATE; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0035059066     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00222-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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