Distribution of Pax6 protein during eye development suggests discrete roles in proliferative and differentiated visual cells

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 206, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 363-369

  Macdonald, Rachel ^a   Wilson, Stephen W ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye development; Neuronal differentiation; Paired box; pax6; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; LENS EPITHELIUM; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA NERVE CELL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM; EYE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; RETINA;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPITHELIUM; EYE; MORPHOGENESIS; PAX6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; RETINA; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 0031018746     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004270050065     Document Type: Article

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