Determination of vertebrate retinal progenitor cell fate by the Notch pathway and basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 215-223

  Perron, M ^a   Harris, W A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bHLH transcription factors; Cell determination; Delta Notch pathway; Neurogenesis; Neurogenic genes; Proneural genes; Retina

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; RETINA; REVIEW; STEM CELL; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0034067695     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00000685     Document Type: Review

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