Expression of photoreceptor-specific nuclear receptor NR2E3 in rod photoreceptors of fetal human retina

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2807-2812

  Bumsted O'Brien, Keely M ^a,b   Cheng, Hong ^c   Jiang, Yibin ^d   Schulte, Dorothea ^a   Swaroop, Anand ^c,d   Hendrickson, Anita E ^e,f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; NEURAL RETINA LEUCINE ZIPPER; PROTEIN NR2E3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCED SHORT WAVELENGTH CONE SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; PATHOGENESIS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA ROD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 3242885306     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-1317     Document Type: Article

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