MEK mediates in vitro neural transdifferentiation of the adult newt retinal pigment epithelium cells: Is FGF2 an induction factor?

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 364-379

  Susaki, Kanako ^a   Chiba, Chikafumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

FGF2; MEK; Newt; Retinal pigment epithelium; Retinal regeneration; Transdifferentiation

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; TUBULIN;

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL REGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEWT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HUMANS; MAP KINASE KINASE KINASE 1; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; SALAMANDRIDAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

SALAMANDRIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34548590315     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: 16000749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.2007.00407.x     Document Type: Article

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