What a study of pterygia teaches us about the Cornea? Molecular mechanisms of formation

Eye and Contact Lens

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 290-295

  Reid, Ted W ^a   Dushku, Nicholas ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

doxycycline; MMP inhibitor; p53; pinguecula; pterygia; SAT 1

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN 12; CYTOKERATIN 13; CYTOKERATIN 19; CYTOKERATIN 4; CYTOKERATIN AE1; EOSIN; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; HEMATOXYLIN; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MITOMYCIN C; PROTEIN P53; STROMELYSIN; VIMENTIN;

BOWMAN MEMBRANE; CANCER SURGERY; CORNEA; CORNEA TUMOR; DNA LIBRARY; DYSPLASIA; EPITHELIUM BASAL CELL; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PTERYGIUM; REVIEW; TUMOR CELL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CELL DIVISION; CORNEA; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; PTERYGIUM;

EID: 77957560027     PISSN: 15422321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICL.0b013e3181eea8fe     Document Type: Review

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