Mucin Deficiency Causes Functional and Structural Changes of the Ocular Surface

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Floyd, Anne M ^a,b   Zhou, Xu ^a,c   Evans, Christopher ^d   Rompala, Olivia J ^a   Zhu, Lingxiang ^a   Wang, Mingwu ^b   Chen, Yin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUCIN 5AC; MUCIN 5B;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA NEOVASCULARIZATION; CORNEA OPACITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; LACRIMAL FLUID; LACRIMAL GLAND; MOUSE; MUC5AC GENE; MUCOUS CELL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TEAR FILM;

ANIMALS; BIOPSY; DNA PRIMERS; DRY EYE SYNDROMES; EYE; EYE DISEASES; FLUORESCEIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUCIN 5AC; MUCINS; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TEARS;

MUS;

EID: 84871290553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050704     Document Type: Article

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