Ultrastructural characterization of developmental and degenerative vitreo-retinal changes in the eyes of transgenic mice with a deletion mutation in type II collagen gene

Current Eye Research

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 439-450

  Ihanamäki, Tapio ^a,b   Salminen, Heli ^a   Säämänen, Anna Marja ^a   Sandberg Lall, Minna ^a   Vuorio, Eero ^a   Pelliniemi, Lauri J ^a,c  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Collagen; Electron microscopy; Extracellular matrix; Gene expression; Transgenic animals

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 2;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMOZYGOSITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE SLICE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VITREORETINAL DEGENERATION; VITREOUS BODY;

AGING; ANIMALS; COLLAGEN TYPE II; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EYE; GENE DELETION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RETINA; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 0036971212     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/ceyr.24.6.439.8594     Document Type: Article

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