Six3 inactivation reveals its essential role for the formation and patterning of the vertebrate eye

Development

Volumn 129, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 4057-4063

  Carl, Matthias ^a   Loosli, Felix ^a   Wittbrodt, Joachim ^a  

^a Developmental Biology Programme   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eye developmental; Medaka; Morpholino; Proximodistal patterning; Six3

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIX3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYE MALFORMATION; FISH; FOREBRAIN; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; ECTODERM; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; FISH PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROPEPTIDES; ORYZIAS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROSENCEPHALON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036712099     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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