Expression of an array of photoreceptor genes in chick embryonic retinal pigment epithelium cell cultures under the induction of neuroD

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 280, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 83-86

  Yan, Run Tao ^a   Wang, Shu Zhen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell fate; Development; NeuroD; Photoreceptor; Retinal pigment epithelium; Transdifferentiation

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SUBUNIT; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL FATE; CHICK EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RETINOL-BINDING PROTEINS; RHODOPSIN;

EID: 0033965973     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)01003-4     Document Type: Article

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