Expression of integrin-linked kinase in the murine lens is consistent with its role in epithelial-mesenchymal transition of lens epithelial cells in vitro

Molecular Vision

Volumn 13, Issue , 2007, Pages 707-718

  Weaver, Matt S ^a,b   Toida, Natalie ^a   Sage, E Helene ^a,b  

^a BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; FIBRONECTIN; INTEGRIN LINKED KINASE; MESSENGER RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXPLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LENS; LENS EPITHELIUM; LENS FIBER; MESENCHYME CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TISSUE CULTURE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIBRONECTINS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 34249283780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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