Intracorneal positioning of the lens in Pax6-GAL4/VP16 transgenic mice

Molecular Vision

Volumn 11, Issue , 2005, Pages 876-886

  Govindarajan, Venkatesh ^a   Harrison, Wilbur R ^b   Xiao, Ningna ^b   Liang, Dongcai ^b   Overbeek, Paul A ^b  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR VP16; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; EMBRYO; EPITHELIUM CELL; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYE DISEASE; EYELID RETRACTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMOZYGOSITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LENS DISEASE; LENS EPITHELIUM; MICROPHTHALMIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STROMA CELL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CATARACT; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; EYE ABNORMALITIES; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROPHTHALMOS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 27744506462     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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