Expression of photoreceptor-associated molecules during human fetal eye development

Molecular Vision

Volumn 9, Issue , 2003, Pages 401-409

  Bumsted O'Brien, Keely M ^a,c   Schulte, Dorothea ^a   Hendrickson, Anita E ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; OPSIN; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; RNA; VISUAL PROTEINS AND PIGMENTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; EYE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FROZEN SECTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MARKER GENE; PHOTORECEPTOR; RETINA FOVEA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RETINA;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EYE PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0347432346     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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