The optic vesicle promotes cornea to lens transdifferentiation in larval Xenopus laevis

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 212, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 621-626

  Cannata, Stefano M ^a,c   Bernardini, Sergio ^a   Filoni, Sergio ^a,c   Gargioli, Cesare ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b Institute of Cell Biology and Tissue Engineering   (Italy)

^c Dipartimento di Biologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cornea; Lens; Optic vesicle; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIDERMIS; LARVA; LENS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RETINA; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE REGENERATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CORNEA; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARVA; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; REGENERATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 42649094476     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2008.00886.x     Document Type: Article

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