Regulation of retinal cone bipolar cell differentiation and photopic vision by the CVC homeobox gene Vsx1

Current Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 530-536

  Ohtoshi, Akihira ^a   Wang, Steven W ^a   Maeda, Hidetaka ^b   Saszik, Shannon M ^b   Frishman, Laura J ^b   Klein, William H ^a   Behringer, Richard R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EYE PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; VSX1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA CONE; VISION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONES (RETINA); ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EYE PROTEINS; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; VISION;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1842535050     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.02.027     Document Type: Article

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