Pax6 lights-up the way for eye development

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 706-714

  Ashery Padan, Ruth ^a   Gruss, Peter ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Department of Molecular Cell Biology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; DELTA CRYSTALLIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; EYE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RETINA CELL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETINA; STEM CELLS;

ERINACEIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035545995     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(00)00274-X     Document Type: Review

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