Overexpression of Pax6 in mouse cornea directly alters corneal epithelial cells: Changes in immune function, vascularization, and differentiation

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4158-4168

  Davis, Janine ^a   Piatigorsky, Joram ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; CHITINASE 3 LIKE 3 PROTEIN; CHITINASE 3 LIKE 4 PROTEIN; KERATIN; LIPID BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX18; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT INHIBITORY FACTOR 1; CYTOKERATIN 12; EYE PROTEIN; FLT1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SCLEROPROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; WIF1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; WNT PROTEIN; YM2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INVASION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GOBLET CELL; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ANIMAL; CELL STRAIN COS1; CERCOPITHECUS; CORNEA; CORNEA OPACITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; LENS; METABOLISM; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHITINASE; CORNEA; CORNEAL OPACITY; COS CELLS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; KERATIN-12; KERATINS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UP-REGULATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 80051923954     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6726     Document Type: Article

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