Improved corneal wound healing through modulation of gap junction communication using connexin43-specific antisense oligodeoxynucleotides

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1130-1138

  Grupcheva, Christina N ^a,b   Laux, Wilda T ^a   Rupenthal, Ilva D ^a   Mcghee, Jennifer ^a   McGhee, Charles N J ^a   Green, Colin R ^a  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VARNA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; CONNEXIN 43;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA EDEMA; DRUG EFFICACY; EPITHELIUM BASAL CELL; EPITHELIZATION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; KERATITIS; LASER SURGERY; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ANIMALS; CONNEXIN 43; CORNEA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYE INJURIES; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTIONS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84857831601     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-8711     Document Type: Article

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