Establishment of an appropriate animal model for lacritin studies: Cloning and characterization of lacritin in monkey eyes

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 651-658

  Nakajima, T ^a   Walkup, R D ^b   Tochigi, A ^b   Shearer, T R ^c   Azuma, M ^a,b,c  

^a SENJU PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^b Senju Pharmaceutical Corporation Limited   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

lacritin; monkey; tear film

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; LACRITIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LACRIMAL FLUID; LACRIMAL GLAND; MALE; MEIBOMIAN GLAND; MOLECULAR CLONING; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RAT; TEAR FLOW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOGS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; LACRIMAL APPARATUS; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEARS;

EID: 35448998408     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2007.07.019     Document Type: Article

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