New genetic model rat for congenital cataracts due to a connexin 46 (Gja3) mutation

Pathology International

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 732-737

  Yoshida, Manabu ^a   Harada, Yuji ^a   Kaidzu, Sachiko ^a   Ohira, Akihiro ^a   Masuda, Junichi ^a   Nabika, Toru ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cataract; Connexin 46; Genetic model; Linkage analysis

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 46;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CHROMOSOME 15; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATARACT; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONNEXINS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS;

EID: 28544440716     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2005.01896.x     Document Type: Article

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