Specification of the vertebrate eye by a network of eye field transcription factors

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 5155-5167

  Zuber, Michael E ^a,c   Gestri, Gaia ^b   Viczian, Andrea S ^a,c   Barsacchi, Giuseppina ^b   Harris, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Ectopic eye formation; ET; Eye field specification; Genetic network; Lhx2; Neural patterning; Noggin; Optx2; Otx2; Pax6; Rx1; Six3; Tll; Transcription factor cocktails; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ET; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OPTX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TLL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0242635513     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00723     Document Type: Article

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