Different roles for Pax6 in the optic vesicle and facial epithelium mediate early morphogenesis of the murine eye

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 945-956

  Collinson, J Martin ^a   Hill, Robert E ^b   West, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chimera; Eye morphogenesis; Mouse chimaera; Pax6

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL MUTANT; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FACE DEVELOPMENT; HOMEOBOX; LENS EPITHELIUM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHIMERA; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPITHELIUM; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; FACE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MORPHOGENESIS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CHIMAERA; CHIMAERIFORMES; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0034121519     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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