The role of crumbs genes in the vertebrate cornea

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4549-4556

  Beyer, Jill ^a   Zhao, Xinping C ^b   Yee, Richard ^b   Khaliq, Shagufta ^c   McMahon, Timothy T ^d   Ying, Hongyu ^d   Yue, Beatrice Y J T ^d   Malicki, Jarema J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c SINDH INSTITUTE OF UROLOGY AND TRANSPLANTATION   (Pakistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA STROMA; CRB1 GENE; CRUMBS GENE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEART AND SOUL GENE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOSAIC EYE GENE; NAGIE OKO GENE; NCAD GENE; NONHUMAN; OKO MEDUZY GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; CELL POLARITY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOSPITALIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PEDIGREE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STROMA CELL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRB1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CRB1 PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH; EYE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; CELL POLARITY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROMAL CELLS; VERTEBRATES; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 77957376289     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4549     Document Type: Article

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