Nuclear cataract caused by a lack of DNA degradation in the mouse eye lens

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6952, 2003, Pages 1071-1074

  Nishimoto, Sogo ^a,d   Kawane, Kohki ^a,b   Watanabe Fukunaga, Rie ^a,c   Fukuyama, Hidehiro ^a,e   Ohsawa, Yoshiyuki ^a   Uchiyama, Yasuo ^a   Hashida, Noriyasu ^b   Ohguro, Nobuyuki ^a   Tano, Yasuo ^a   Morimoto, Takeshi ^a   Fukuda, Yutaka ^a   Nagata, Shigekazu ^a,b,c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d Trans Genic   (Japan)

^e ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; LENSES; SURFACES;

EYE LENS;

DNA;

DNA; RNA;

DNA; RODENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA DEGRADATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EYE DISEASE; GENE TARGETING; LENS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CATARACT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LIGHT; MICE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0042364937     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01895     Document Type: Article

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