Development and use of the lens epithelial explant system to study lens differentiation and cataractogenesis

Progress in Retinal and Eye Research

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 135-143

  West Mays, Judith A ^a   Pino, Guiseppe ^a   Lovicu, Frank J ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT PROTEIN;

CATARACT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; EXPLANT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYE DISEASE; LENS EPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CATARACT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77249138150     PISSN: 13509462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2009.12.001     Document Type: Review

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