Nr2e3 and Nrl can reprogram retinal precursors to the rod fate in Xenopus retina

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 236, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1970-1979

  McIlvain, Vera A ^a   Knox, Barry E ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell fate; Development; Lens; Nr2e3; Nrl; Retina; Transfection; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; PROTEIN NR2E3; PROTEIN NRL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; LENS FIBER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA ROD; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RODS (RETINA); STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 34447543020     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21128     Document Type: Article

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