Myo/Nog cells: targets for preventing the accumulation of skeletal muscle-like cells in the human lens.

Myo/Nog cells: targets for preventing the accumulation of skeletal muscle-like cells in the human lens.

Posterior capsule opacification (PCO) is a vision impairing condition that arises in some patients following cataract surgery. The fibrotic form of PCO is caused by myofibroblasts that may emerge in the lens years after surgery. In the chick embryo lens, myofibroblasts are derived from Myo/Nog cells...

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Main Authors: Jacquelyn Gerhart, Marvin Greenbaum, Victoria Scheinfeld, Paul Fitzgerald, Mitchell Crawford, Arturo Bravo-Nuevo, Meghan Pitts, Mindy George-Weinstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3988172?pdf=render

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