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Volume 4 (2005 - 2006) - December 2005

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Compound developmental eye disorders following inactivation of TGFβ signaling in neural-crest stem cells

Lars M Ittner, Heiko Wurdak, Kerstin Schwerdtfeger, Thomas Kunz, Fabian Ille, Per Leveen, Tord A Hjalt, Ueli Suter, Stefan Karlsson, Farhad Hafezi, Walter Born, Lukas Sommer Journal of Biology 2005, 4:11 (14 December 2005)

Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central |  Editor’s summary

Important structures in developing mouse eyes originate from neural crest cells controlled by TGFbeta signals from the lens, providing insight into human conditions that results in glaucoma and blindness.