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Myocilin is involved in NgR1/Lingo-1-mediated oligodendrocyte differentiation and myelination of the optic nerve.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 16 Apr 2014
Kwon Heung Sun, Nakaya Naoki, Abu-Asab Mones, Kim Hong Sug, Tomarev Stanislav I
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Myocilin is a secreted glycoprotein that belongs to a family of olfactomedin domain-containing proteins. Although myocilin is detected in several ocular and nonocular tissues, the only reported human pathology related to mutations in the MYOCILIN gene is primary open-angle glaucoma. Functions of...
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