Quantification of PAX6 and PAX6(5a) transcript levels in adult human lens, cornea, and monkey retina

Molecular Vision

Volumn 7, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-5

  Zhang, Weiyan ^a   Cveklova, Kveta ^b   Opperman, Brian ^a   Kantorow, Marc ^a   Cvekl, Ales ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; EYE PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; DOWN REGULATION; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LENS EPITHELIUM; LENS FIBER; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREAS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULATOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETICS; LENS; MACACA; RETINA;

ANIMALS; CORNEA; DOWN-REGULATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EYE PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MACACA; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0347895269     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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