Journal:
:international journal of pediatrics
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siamak zarei-ghanavati1 eye research center, mashhad university of medical sciences, mashhad, iran.
arturo ramirez-miranda cornea and uveitis division, jules stein eye institute, university of california, los angeles, ca.
martin n. nakatsu2 cornea and uveitis division, jules stein eye institute, university of california, los angeles, ca.
christine v. nguyen georgetown university, faculty of medicine, washington, dc.
sophie x. deng cornea and uveitis division, jules stein eye institute, university of california, los angeles, ca.
introduction to evaluate the expression patterns of cytokeratin (k) 12, 13, and 19 in normal epithelium of the human ocular surface to determine whether k13 could be used as a marker for conjunctival epithelium. methods: total rna was isolated from the human conjunctiva and central cornea. those transcripts that had threefolds or higher expression levels in the conjunctiva than the cornea were ...
