Morphological changes and nuclear pore clustering during nuclear degradation in differentiating bovine lens fibre cells

Ophthalmic Research

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 288-294

  Dahm, Ralf ^a   Prescott, Alan R ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Chromatin; Denucleation; Lens development; Lens fibre cell differentiation; Nuclear pores; Nucleus; Programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LENS FIBER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR PORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CATTLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; NUCLEAR PORE;

EID: 0036967787     PISSN: 00303747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000065605     Document Type: Article

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