Diverse roles of Eph/ephrin signaling in the mouse lens

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Cheng, Catherine ^a   Gong, Xiaohua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; BETA CATENIN; EPHRIN A2; EPHRIN A5; UVOMORULIN;

ANTERIOR LENS CAPSULE; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LENS EPITHELIUM; LENS FIBER; MESENCHYME CELL; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR CAPSULE OF THE LENS; BETA CATENIN; CADHERINS; CATARACT; EPHRIN-A5; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTOR, EPHA2; RECEPTORS, EPH FAMILY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 82255173887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028147     Document Type: Article

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