The lens-regenerating competence in the outer cornea and epidermis of larval Xenopus laevis is related to pax6 expression

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 212, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 612-620

  Gargioli, Cesare ^a   Giambra, Vincenzo ^b   Santoni, Sara ^b   Bernardini, Sergio ^b   Frezza, Domenico ^b   Filoni, Sergio ^b   Cannata, Stefano M ^b  

^a S Raffaele Biomedical Park Foundation   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Competence; Cornea; Lens regeneration; Pax6; Transdifferentiation; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PROX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENUCLEATION; EPIDERMIS; LARVA; LENS; LENSECTOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE REGENERATION; VITREOUS BODY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CORNEA; EPIDERMIS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LARVA; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REGENERATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAINING AND LABELING; VITREOUS BODY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 42649121339     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2008.00891.x     Document Type: Article

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