Comparative transcriptome analysis of epithelial and fiber cells in newborn mouse lenses with RNA Sequencing

Molecular Vision

Volumn 20, Issue , 2014, Pages 1491-1517

  Hoang, Thanh V ^a   Raj Kumar, Praveen Kumar ^a   Sutharzan, Sreeskandarajan ^a   Tsonis, Panagiotis A ^b   Liang, Chun ^a   Robinson, Michael L ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; GROWTH FACTOR; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEASOME; PROTEIN KINASE; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UBIQUITIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BINDING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL ORGANELLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LENS EPITHELIUM; LENS FIBER; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; LENS; LENS CAPSULE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; LENS CAPSULE, CRYSTALLINE; LENS CORTEX, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA, LONG NONCODING; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTOME;

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