Mosaics of Islet-1-expressing amacrine cells assembled by short-range cellular interactions

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 7831-7838

  Galli Resta, Lucia ^a   Resta, Giovanni ^a   Tan, Seong Seng ^b   Reese, Benjamin E ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ChAT amacrine; Islet 1; LIM proteins; Retina; Tangential migration; Voronoi domains; X inactivation transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAT; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; VISION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 0030754831     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-20-07831.1997     Document Type: Article

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