A complex expression pattern of Pax6 in the pigeon retina

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2503-2509

  Bandah, Dikla ^a   Swissa, Tomer ^a   Ben Shlomo, Gil ^b   Banin, Eyal ^a   Ofri, Ron ^b   Sharon, Dror ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; EYE PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CYTOSOLIC FRACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; PIGEONS AND DOVES;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; COLUMBIDAE; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 34347268843     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-1014     Document Type: Article

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