Targeted expression of a lumican transgene rescues corneal dificiencies in lumican-null mice

Molecular Vision

Volumn 13, Issue , 2007, Pages 2012-2018

  Meij, Johanna T A ^a   Carlson, Eric C ^a,b,f   Wang, Li ^a   Liu, Chia Yang ^a   Jester, James V ^c   Birk, David E ^d   Kao, Winston W Y ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

^f CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBRIL; KERATOCAN; LUMICAN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA THICKNESS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; KERATAN SULFATE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATES; PROTEOGLYCANS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 35548961425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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