Macrophage localization in the developing lens primordium of the mouse embryo - An immunohistochemical study

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 223-228

  Nishitani, Koji ^a   Sasaki, Kazunobu ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

apoptosis; F4 80; lens formation; lens vesicle; macrophage

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LENS; LENS EPITHELIUM; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; APOPTOSIS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PHAGOCYTOSIS;

EID: 33646894141     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2005.12.008     Document Type: Article

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