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Hyaloid vasculature and mmp2 activity play a role during optic fissure fusion in zebrafish.
Scientific reports - 23 Jun 2020
Weaver Megan L, Piedade Warlen P, Meshram Nishita N, Famulski Jakub K
Abstract excerpt
Vertebrate retinal development requires timely and precise fusion of the optic fissure (OF). Failure of this event leads to congenital vision impairment in the form of coloboma. Recent studies have suggested hyaloid vasculature to be involved in OF fusion. In order to examine this link, we analyzed OF fusion and hyaloid vasculogenesis in the zebrafish pax2a noi mutant line. We first determined that pax2a-/-...
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