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Mouse conjunctival forniceal gene expression during postnatal development and its regulation by Kruppel-like factor 4.
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science - 1 Jul 2011
Gupta Divya, Harvey Stephen A K, Kaminski Naftali, Swamynathan Shivalingappa K
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: To identify the changes in postnatal mouse conjunctival forniceal gene expression and their regulation by Klf4 during the eye-opening stage when the goblet cells first appear. METHODS: Laser microdissection (LMD) was used to collect conjunctival forniceal cells from postnatal (PN) day 9, PN14 and PN20 wild-type (WT), and PN14 Klf4-conditional null (Klf4CN) mice, in which goblet cells are absent,...
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