Molecular bases of corneal endothelial dystrophies

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 24-34

  Schmedt, Thore ^a,b   Silva, Mariana Mazzini ^c   Ziaei, Alireza ^a,b   Jurkunas, Ula ^a,b,d  

^a SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Tadeu Cvintal Ophthalmology Institute   (Brazil)

^d MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Congenital hereditary endothelial dystrophy (CHED); Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy (FECD); Genetics; Guttae; Oxidative stress; Posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy (PPCP); Sodium biocarbonate transporter like protein 11 (SLC4A11)

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 8; METALLOTHIONEIN III; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SCLEROPROTEIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CYTOSOL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PEROXISOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CORNEA; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EYE PROTEINS; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEREDITY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84856542436     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

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