Postnatal Development of the Eye in the Naked Mole Rat (Heterocephalus glaber)

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 277, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 317-337

  Nikitina, Natalya V ^a   Maughan Brown, Bronwen ^a   O'Riain, M Justin ^b   Kidson, Susan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Eye development; Heterocephalus glaber; Lens; Mole rat; crystallins

Indexed keywords

GAMMA CRYSTALLIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DEVELOPMENT; HETEROCEPHALUS GLABER; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LENS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RODENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA; HETEROCEPHALUS GLABER; RODENTIA;

EID: 1842457788     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20025     Document Type: Article

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