Expression of αsmooth muscle actin in lens epithelia from human donors and cataract patients

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 539-550

  Rungger Brändle, Elisabeth ^a   Conti, Alain ^a   Leuenberger, Peter M ^a   Rungger, Duri ^b  

^a HUG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

smooth muscle actin; Beta catenin; Cataractogenesis; Confocal microscopy; Epithelial mesenchymal transition; Repair; TGFbeta

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2; ACTIN; BETA CATENIN; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; TGFB2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CELL ADHESION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DONOR; EVALUATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULE CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LENS EPITHELIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; AGING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROSIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; LENS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY;

ACTINS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA CATENIN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATARACT; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIBROSIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2;

EID: 27444445924     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2005.03.012     Document Type: Article

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