The transcription factor Nr2e3 functions in retinal progenitors to suppress cone cell generation

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 917-929

  Haider, Neena B ^a,b,e   Demarco, Paul ^c,d   Nystuen, Arne M ^a   Huang, Xiaona ^a   Smith, Richard S ^b   Mccall, Maureen A ^c   Naggert, Jürgen K ^b   Nishina, Patsy M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e 985805 Nebraska Medical Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cell proliferation; Nr2e3; Photoreceptors; Retinal development; Retinal progenitors

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NR2E3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENHANCED S CONE SYNDROME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; MITOSIS RATE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA ROD; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CONES (RETINA); ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STEM CELLS;

EID: 33947413863     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095252380623027X     Document Type: Article

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