Sentence examples for lens morphogenesis from inspiring English sources

During lens morphogenesis cells become organized into a polarized, spheroidal structure with a monolayer of epithelial cells overlying the apical tips of elongated fiber cells.

Using BrdU-incorporation, the present study has attempted to follow the fate of lens cells that have undergone at least one round of DNA synthesis during the early stages of lens morphogenesis.

Neither miRNA affected lens morphogenesis.

Neither miRNA was able to affect lens morphogenesis or induction.

We followed the standard protocol to examine their effects on lens morphogenesis.

These data validate the microarray results and substantiate the ability of Dbl oncogene to modulate genes involved in lens morphogenesis, apoptosis, angiogenesis and EMT processes.

Lens fiber morphogenesis also requires expression of the highly abundant major intrinsic protein (MIP, or aquaporin-0), which is a water channel and a major lens membrane structural protein (Agre and Kozono, 2003), and the connexins Cx43 (Gja1), Cx46 (Gjand and Cx50 (Gja8), to establish gap junction channels (see Mathias et al., 2010).

Collectively these observations uncover a requirement for Rap1 in maintenance of lens epithelial phenotype and morphogenesis.

Extracellular signaling and DNA-binding transcription factors govern lens and optic cup morphogenesis.

Shroom3 is an actin-associated regulator of cell morphology that is required for neural tube closure, formation of the lens placode, and gut morphogenesis in mice and has been linked to chronic kidney disease and directional heart looping in humans.

Although the morphogenesis of the lens in zebrafish shows important differences to that in mammals, the overall morphology of the adult zebrafish lens is similar to that of other vertebrates [6].