Mutually exclusive expression of the L and M pigment genes in the human retinoblastoma cell line WERI: Resetting by cell division

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 371-378

  Deeb, Samir S ^a,b   Liu, Yan ^a   Hayashi, Takaaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Cone photoreceptors; Opsin gene expression; WERI retinoblastoma

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; OPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CELL POPULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOSAICISM; PIGMENT CELL; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINOBLASTOMA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RETINOBLASTOMA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 33646535411     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523806233030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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