Xenopus Brn-3.0, a POU-domain gene expressed in the developing retina and tectum: Not regulated by innervation

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 960-969

  Hirsch, Nicolas ^a   Harris, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

brain; homeobox; POU; retina; tectum

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INNERVATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; DENERVATION; DNA PROBES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RETINA; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRN-3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030901423     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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