Dominant cataracts result from incongruous mixing of wild-type lens connexins

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 161, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 969-978

  Martinez Wittinghan, Francisco J ^a   Sellitto, Caterina ^a   Li, Leping ^a   Gong, Xiaohua ^b   Brink, Peter R ^a   Mathias, Richard T ^a   White, Thomas W ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Connexin; Intercellular communication; Knockin; Knockover; Lens

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIN; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL GROWTH; GAP JUNCTION; HOMEOSTASIS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LENS; LENS FIBER; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CATARACT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL SIZE; CONNEXINS; CRYSTALLINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GAP JUNCTIONS; HETEROZYGOTE; ION CHANNELS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037780896     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200303068     Document Type: Article

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