Epithelial transdifferentiation and cataract in the human lens

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 339-346

  Marcantonio, Julia M ^a   Syam, P P ^b   Liu, C S C ^b   Duncan, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b SUSSEX EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anterior subcapsular cataract; Human; Transdifferentiation; Transforming growth factor beta

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAPSULORHEXIS; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHILD; EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXPOSURE; EYE INJURY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LENS; LENS CAPSULE; LIVING DONOR; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TISSUE CULTURE; TRAUMATIC CATARACT; VITREOUS OPACITY;

EID: 0042622210     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4835(03)00125-8     Document Type: Article

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