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Loss of the small heat shock protein αA-crystallin does not lead to detectable defects in early zebrafish lens development.
Experimental eye research - 1 Nov 2013
Posner Mason, Skiba Jackie, Brown Mary, Liang Jennifer O, Nussbaum Justin, Prior Heather
Abstract excerpt
Alpha crystallins are small heat shock proteins essential to normal ocular lens function. They also help maintain homeostasis in many non-ocular vertebrate tissues and their expression levels change in multiple diseases of the nervous and cardiovascular system and during cancer. The specific role...
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