Retinal pigmented epithelium determination requires the redundant activities of Pax2 and Pax6

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 2903-2915

  Bäumer, Nicole ^a   Marquardt, Till ^a,b   Stoykova, Anastassia ^a   Spieler, Derek ^a   Treichel, Dieter ^a   Ashery Padan, Ruth ^a,c   Gruss, Peter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Eye development; Mitf; Pax2; Pax6; Pigmented retina; Regionalization

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MELANOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037767890     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00450     Document Type: Article

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