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Lens, Crystalline
Known as:
Ocular Lens
, EYE, LENS
, Lens Of Eye
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A clear disk that focuses light, as in a camera or microscope. In the eye, the lens is a clear, curved structure at the front of the eye behind the…
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Epithelium of lens
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Review
2004
Review
2004
Ageing and vision: structure, stability and function of lens crystallins.
H. Bloemendal
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W. D. de Jong
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R. Jaenicke
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N. Lubsen
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C. Slingsby
,
A. Tardieu
Progress in biophysics and molecular biology
2004
Corpus ID: 41850017
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Evolution, structure and function of the small heat shock proteins in plants
E. Waters
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Garrett J. Lee
,
E. Vierling
1996
Corpus ID: 11666033
The a-crystallin-related, small heat shock proteins (smHSPs) are ubiquitous in nature, but are unusually abundant and diverse in…
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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
The role of Pax-6 in eye and nasal development.
J. Grindley
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D. Davidson
,
R. Hill
Development
1995
Corpus ID: 597148
Small eye (Sey) mice homozygous for mutations in the Pax-6 gene have no lenses and no nasal cavities. We have examined the…
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Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
p53-dependent apoptosis produced by Rb-deficiency in the developing mouse lens
S. Morgenbesser
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B. Williams
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T. Jacks
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R. DePinho
Nature
1994
Corpus ID: 4350088
THE retinoblastoma tumour-suppressor gene (RB) has been implicated in negative growth regulation, induction of differentiation…
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Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Small heat shock proteins are molecular chaperones.
U. Jakob
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M. Gaestel
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K. Engel
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J. Buchner
The Journal of biological chemistry
1993
Corpus ID: 39519346
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Alpha-crystallin can function as a molecular chaperone.
J. Horwitz
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
1992
Corpus ID: 38227297
The alpha-crystallins (alpha A and alpha B) are major lens structural proteins of the vertebrate eye that are related to the…
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Targeted oncogene activation by site-specific recombination in transgenic mice.
M. Lakso
,
B. Sauer
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+5 authors
H. Westphal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
1992
Corpus ID: 8182662
An efficient and accurate method for controlled in vivo transgene modulation by site-directed recombination is described. Seven…
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Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Age and the transmittance of the human crystalline lens.
R. Weale
The Journal of physiology
1988
Corpus ID: 10355564
1. Conflicting data both on the transmission of the human crystalline lens in the ultra‐violet part of the spectrum and on its…
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Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Deamidation, isomerization, and racemization at asparaginyl and aspartyl residues in peptides. Succinimide-linked reactions that contribute to protein degradation.
T. Geiger
,
S. Clarke
The Journal of biological chemistry
1987
Corpus ID: 35710204
Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
Surfactin, a crystalline peptidelipid surfactant produced by Bacillus subtilis: isolation, characterization and its inhibition of fibrin clot formation.
K. Arima
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A. Kakinuma
,
G. Tamura
Biochemical and biophysical research…
1968
Corpus ID: 28165171
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