Lhx2, a LIM homeobox gene, is required for eye, forebrain, and definitive erythrocyte development

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 2935-2944

  Porter, Forbes D ^a   Drago, John ^b   Xu, Yang ^c   Cheema, Surindar S ^b   Wassif, Chris ^a   Huang, Sing Ping ^a   Lee, Eric ^a   Grinberg, Alexander ^a   Massalas, Jim S ^b   Bodine, David ^a   Alt, Frederick ^c   Westphal, Heiner ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Erythropoiesis; Eye; Forebrain; LIM homeobox; Mouse

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOPHTHALMIA; APLASIA; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEATH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROPOIESIS; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FOREBRAIN; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HOMEOBOX; HYPOPLASIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; RETINA NEUROEPITHELIAL LAYER;

ANEMIA; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ERYTHROPOIESIS; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LIVER; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030767662     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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