Vimentin as a Marker of Early Differentiating, Highly Motile Corneal Epithelial Cells

Vimentin (Vim), a cytoskeletal intermediate filament, is part of a naturally occurring reversible program, the Epithelial‐Mesenchymal Transition (EMT), which converts epithelial cells into mesenchymal‐like derivatives. Based on previous results showing that epithelial cells co‐express Vim and keratin (Krt) as part of a cytoskeletal network which confers them a highly motile phenotype, we explored the role of Vim in rabbit corneal epithelial...