An ultrastructural investigation of dermatopontin-knockout mouse corneas

• Published in: International journal of experimental pathology Vol. 85; no. 4; pp. A59 - A60
• Main Authors: Cooper, L.J., Bentley, A.J., Nieduszynski, I.A., Fullwood, N.J., Ellis, T.S., Thomson, A., Utani1, A., Sinkai, H., Brown, G.M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK; Malden, USA Blackwell Science Ltd 01.08.2004; Blackwell Science Inc

Introduction  The corneal stroma is composed of a network of heterotypic collagen fibrils, proteoglycans and matrix proteins. Transparency of the tissue principally requires the uniformity of fibril diameters and interfibrillar distances and the presence of a quasi‐hexagonal lattice arrangement of p...