A retinoic acid synthesizing enzyme in ventral retina and telencephalon of the embryonic mouse

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 95, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 283-289

  Li, Huanchen ^a,b   Wagner, Elisabeth ^a,b   McCaffery, Peter ^a,b   Smith, Deborah ^a,b   Andreadis, Athena ^a,b   Dräger, Ursula C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

ALDH6; Eyelids; Lateral ganglionic eminence; Lens; Lens placode; Mouse embryo; Olfactory organ; Olfactory placode; Optic stalk; Piriform cortex; RALDH1; RALDH2; RALDH3; Retinaldehyde dehydrogenase; Retinoic acid; Septum; Ventral retina

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; ISOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RETINAL DEHYDROGENASE; RETINOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYELID; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; LENS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; OPTIC VESICLE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RETINA; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELENCEPHALON; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RETINA; TELENCEPHALON; TRETINOIN;

EID: 0034235204     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(00)00352-X     Document Type: Article

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