Conservation of gene expression during embryonic lens formation and cornea-lens transdifferentiation in Xenopus laevis

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 215, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 308-318

  Schaefer, Jonathan J ^a   Oliver, Guillermo ^b   Henry, Jonathan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

6 cry; Cornea lens transdifferentiation; Lens induction; Lens regeneration; pax 6; Xenopus laevis; Xotx2; XProx1; xSOX3

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CORNEA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LENS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CORNEA; CRYSTALLINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LENS CORTEX, CRYSTALLINE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

AMPHIBIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032795367     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199908)215:4<308::AID-AJA3>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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