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Increased corneal epithelial turnover contributes to abnormal homeostasis in the Pax6(+/-) mouse model of aniridia.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Douvaras Panagiotis, Mort Richard L, Edwards Dominic, Ramaesh Kanna, Dhillon Baljean, Morley Steven D, Hill Robert E, West John D
Abstract excerpt
We aimed to test previous predictions that limbal epithelial stem cells (LESCs) are quantitatively deficient or qualitatively defective in Pax6(+/-) mice and decline with age in wild-type (WT) mice. Consistent with previous studies, corneal epithelial stripe patterns coarsened with age in WT mosa...
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