Targeted disruption of ATF4 discloses its essential role in the formation of eye lens fibres

Genes to Cells

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 801-810

  Tanaka, Takashi ^a,c   Tsujimura, Tohru ^a   Takeda, Kiyoshi ^a,c   Sugihara, Ayako ^a   Maekawa, Akiko ^a,c   Terada, Nobuyuki ^a   Yoshida, Nobuaki ^b   Akira, Shizuo ^a,c  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; LENS FIBER; MALE; MICROPHTHALMIA; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; RETINA DEVELOPMENT;

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPITHELIUM; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HYPERPLASIA; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RETINA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032452122     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1998.00230.x     Document Type: Article

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