The lens equator: A platform for molecular machinery that regulates the switch from cell proliferation to differentiation in the vertebrate lens

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 387-401

  Mochizuki, Toshiaki ^a   Masai, Ichiro ^a  

^a OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Equator; Lens; Morphogenesis; Proliferation

Indexed keywords

INTRINSIC FACTOR;

CATARACT EXTRACTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; LENS; LENS EPITHELIUM; LENS FIBER; NONHUMAN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE; VITREOUS BODY; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; EPITHELIUM; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPITHELIUM; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84903166372     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dgd.12128     Document Type: Review

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