Expression pattern of connexins in the corneal and limbal epithelium of a primate

Cornea

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 194-199

  Yuan, Xiaoyong ^a   Chen, Zhuo ^a   Yang, Zhuo ^a   Gao, Junfang ^b   Zhang, Aijun ^a   Wu, Samuel M ^a   Jacoby, Roy ^a  

^a CULLEN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Connexins; Cornea; Epithelium; Limbus; Macaque

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 30; CONNEXIN 31; CONNEXIN 32; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 45; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LIMBUS; HISTOLOGY; MACACA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; CONNEXINS; CORNEA; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STAINING AND LABELING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 67650602920     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e318185268e     Document Type: Article

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