Similarities and differences among inner retinal neurons revealed by the expression of reporter transgenes controlled by Brn-3a, Brn-3b, and Brn-3c promotor sequences

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 955-962

  Xiang, Mengqing ^a   Zhou, Lijuan ^a   Nathans, Jeremy ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amacrine cells; POU domain transcription factors; Retina; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; POU4F1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; POU4F1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; POU4F2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F3;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOCHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; REPORTER GENE; RETINA; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, REPORTER; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; RETINA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN-3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN-3A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN-3B; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN-3C; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0030225631     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523800009184     Document Type: Article

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