Identification of global gene expression differences between human lens epithelial and cortical fiber cells reveals specific genes and their associated pathways important for specialized lens cell functions

Molecular Vision

Volumn 11, Issue , 2005, Pages 274-283

  Hawse, John R ^a,b   DeAmicis Tress, Candida ^a   Cowell, Tracy L ^a   Kantorow, Marc ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TYPE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA MICROARRAY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LENS EPITHELIUM; OPTIC NERVE FIBER; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSLATION;

AGED; DNA PRIMERS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LENS CORTEX, CRYSTALLINE; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 25444431821     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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