Ocular pathology relevant to glaucoma in a Gja1 Jrt/+ mouse model of human oculodentodigital dysplasia

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3539-3547

  Tsui, Edmund ^a   Hill, Kathleen A ^a   Laliberte, Alex M ^a   Paluzzi, Daniel ^a   Kisilevsky, Ilia ^a   Shao, Qing ^a   Heathcote, J Godfrey ^b   Laird, Dale W ^a   Kidder, Gerald M ^a,c   Hutnik, Cindy M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CHILDREN S HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION ALPHA 1 PROTEIN; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GJA1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

AGE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BODY MASS; CILIARY BODY; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENOPHTHALMOS; EYE MALFORMATION; GENE MUTATION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MICROPHTHALMIA; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OCULODENTODIGITAL SYNDROME; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PUPIL; TONOMETRY; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; C3H MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DISEASE MODEL; ENAMEL; GENETICS; GLAUCOMA; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; SYNDACTYLY;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CILIARY BODY; CONNEXIN 43; DENTAL ENAMEL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYE ABNORMALITIES; GLAUCOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SYNDACTYLY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 80051772842     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6399     Document Type: Article

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