FoxC1 is essential for vascular basement membrane integrity and hyaloid vessel morphogenesis

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5026-5034

  Skarie, Jonathan M ^a   Link, Brian A ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAMININ; LAMININ III; PROTEIN P53; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXC1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXC1A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXC1B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EXON; EYE MALFORMATION; GLAUCOMA; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; VASCULARIZATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EYE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENE SILENCING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LAMININ; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MORPHOGENESIS; OPHTHALMIC ARTERY; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 78649436084     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3447     Document Type: Article

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