Fuchs corneal dystrophy: Aberrant collagen distribution in an L450W Mutant of the COL8A2 gene

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4504-4511

  Gottsch, John D ^a   Zhang, Cheng ^a   Sundin, Olof H ^a   Bell, W Robert ^a   Stark, Walter J ^a   Green, W Richard ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; COLLAGEN TYPE 8; COLLAGEN TYPE 8A1; COLLAGEN TYPE 8A2; FIBRONECTIN; LAMININ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; COL8A2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; COL8A2 GENE; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; EYEBANK; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY;

COLLAGEN TYPE IV; COLLAGEN TYPE VIII; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; FIBRONECTINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; HUMANS; LAMININ; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUTATION;

EID: 33644815534     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-0497     Document Type: Article

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