Connexin expression patterns in the rat cornea: Molecular evidence for communication compartments

Cornea

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 457-464

  Laux Fenton, Wilda T ^a   Donaldson, Paul J ^a   Kistler, Joerg ^b   Green, Colin R ^a  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Connexin; Differential expression; Immunohistochemistry; Rat cornea; RTPCR

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CONNEXINS; CORNEA; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0037662633     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003226-200307000-00012     Document Type: Article

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