Up-regulation of novel intermediate filament proteins in primary fiber cells: An indicator of all vertebrate lens fiber differentiation?

Anatomical Record

Volumn 258, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 25-33

  Ireland, Mark E ^a,e   Wallace, Paul ^b   Sandilands, Aileen ^b   Poosch, Michael ^a   Kasper, Michael ^c   Graw, Jochen ^d   Liu, Ailian ^a   Maisel, Harry ^a   Prescott, Alan R ^b   Hutcheson, Aileen M ^b   Goebel, Dennis ^a   Quinlan, Roy A ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c Stadtisches Klinikum Gorlitz gGmbH   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Beaded filaments; Lens; Primary fiber cells; RNase protection; Terminal differentiation

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHICKEN; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LENS FIBER; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EYE PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 17344390410     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(20000101)258:1<25::AID-AR3>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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