A role for Wnt/planar cell polarity signaling during lens fiber cell differentiation?

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 712-725

  Chen, Y ^a,b   Stump, R J W ^a,c   Lovicu, F J ^a,b,c   McAvoy, J W ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Frizzled; Lens development; Lens epithelium; Lens fiber differentiation; Microtubules; Small GTPases; Wnt

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; BETA CATENIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; F ACTIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RAC PROTEIN; RAC1 PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; WNT PROTEIN;

CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POLARITY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LENS FIBER; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 33846394751     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2006.11.005     Document Type: Review

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