Fig. 4. Localization of laminin in SEY (+/) mouse corneas. Laminin was
detected by immunofluorescence in the basement membrane underlying the corneal
epithelium and the endothelium of wild-type (A) and mutant (+/)
Pax6SeyDey (B) corneas. The dim fluorescence present in
wild-type epithelial cells was absent in mutant cells, and large aggregates of
immunofluorescence (asterisks in B) occasionally appeared in the stroma of
mutant corneas. Similar staining was observed in the
Pax6SeyNeu (+/) cornea (data not shown).
Abbreviations: c, epithelium; s, stroma; n, endothelium.