Cytoskeletal and cell adhesion defects in wounded and Pax6+/- corneal epithelia

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1415-1423

  Ou, Jingxing ^a   Lowes, Christina ^a   Martin Collinson, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; DESMOPLAKIN; KERATIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; DSP PROTEIN, MOUSE; EYE PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MAPK6 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 6; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA EROSION; CORNEA INJURY; CYTOSKELETON; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EPITHELIZATION; FILOPODIUM; GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PAX6 GENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; WILD TYPE; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; ANIRIDIA; CBA MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CORNEA DISEASE; EYE INJURY; FEMALE; INJURY; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ANIRIDIA; CELL ADHESION; CELLS, CULTURED; CORNEAL DISEASES; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DESMOPLAKINS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE INJURIES; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; KERATINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 6; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHOSPHORYLATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 77949895975     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4023     Document Type: Article

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