Cytokeratin 15 can be used to identify the limbal phenotype in normal and diseased ocular surfaces

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4780-4786

  Yoshida, Satoru ^a,b   Shimmura, Shigeto ^a,b   Kawakita, Tetsuya ^a   Miyashita, Hideyuki ^b   Den, Seika ^a   Shimazaki, Jun ^a,b   Tsubota, Kazuo ^a,b  

^a TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CYTOKERATIN; CYTOKERATIN 12; CYTOKERATIN 14; CYTOKERATIN 15; CYTOKERATIN 19; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONJUNCTIVA EPITHELIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA BURN; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LIMBUS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE MARKER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANNUS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SALTZMANN DYSTROPHY; ANIMAL; CONJUNCTIVA; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CONJUNCTIVA; CORNEAL DISEASES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; KERATIN-12; KERATIN-14; KERATIN-15; KERATIN-19; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 34247174789     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-0574     Document Type: Article

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