Regulation of lens regeneration by fibro
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Katia Del Rio-Tsonis; Michael T. Trombley; Gerald McMahon; Panagiotis A. Tsonis
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Lens regeneration in vivo is restricted to some urodeles only. After removal of the lens, this remarkable event is initiated from the dorsal iris. The pigmented epithelial cells from the dorsal iris dedifferentiate and subsequently transdifferentiate to form the regenerating lens. This property of t