Focus on Molecules: Myocilin/TIGR

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 501-502

  Ricard, Cynthia S ^a   Tamm, Ernst R ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOCILIN;

CHROMOSOME MAP; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION;

EID: 27444443739     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2005.06.014     Document Type: Short Survey

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