Connexin mediated cataract prevention in mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-8

  Li, Lin ^a   Cheng, Catherine ^a   Xia, Chun Hong ^a   White, Thomas W ^b   Fletcher, Daniel A ^c   Gong, Xiaohua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 46; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; CRYSTALLIN, GAMMAB;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GAP JUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL JUNCTION; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; GENETICS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LENS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

MUS;

ANIMALS; CATARACT; CONNEXINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GAMMA-CRYSTALLINS; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC;

EID: 77958559660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012624     Document Type: Article

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