Lens epithelial cell death and reduction of anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-2 in human anterior polar cataracts

Molecular Vision

Volumn 8, Issue , 2002, Pages 235-240

  Lee, Eunjoo H ^a   Wan, Xiu Hua ^b,c   Song, Jeongmin ^b   Kang, Jimmy Jaeyoung ^b   Cho, Jin Won ^b,d   Seo, Kyoung Y ^b   Lee, Joon H ^b,d  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^d Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; LENS EPITHELIUM; MALE; MYOFIBROBLAST; NICK END LABELING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGED; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CATARACT; DNA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENES, BCL-2; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0036976369     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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