Increased apoptosis and abnormal wound-healing responses in the heterozygous Pax6+/- mouse cornea

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1911-1917

  Ramaesh, Thaya ^a,b,c   Ramaesh, Kanna ^d   Leask, Rosemary ^a   Springbett, Anthea ^e   Riley, Simon C ^a   Dhillon, Baljean ^b,c   West, John D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d GARTNAVEL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GELATINASE B; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; EYE PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA INJURY; DEBRIDEMENT; DISSOCIATION; ENZYME RELEASE; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STAINING; STROMA CELL; WILD TYPE; WOUND HEALING; ZYMOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; ANIRIDIA; C57BL MOUSE; CBA MOUSE; CELL MOTION; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA STROMA; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANIRIDIA; APOPTOSIS; CELL MOVEMENT; CORNEAL STROMA; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 9; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33744761463     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-1028     Document Type: Article

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