Expression profiling of the developing and mature Nrl-/- mouse retina: Identification of retinal disease candidates and transcriptional regulatory targets of Nrl

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1487-1503

  Yoshida, Shigeo ^a,f   Mears, Alan J ^a,g   Friedman, James S ^a   Carter, Todd ^d   He, Shirley ^a   Oh, Edwin ^a   Jing, Yuezhou ^b   Farjo, Rafal ^a,h   Fleury, Gilles ^e   Barlow, Carrolee ^d,i   Hero, Alfred O ^b   Swaroop, Anand ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b University of Michigan   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^e SUPELEC   (France)

^f KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA EYE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVICE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA ROD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CALCIUM; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONES (RETINA); EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HOMEOSTASIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RETINA; RETINAL DISEASES; RODS (RETINA); STRESS;

EID: 3543082672     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddh160     Document Type: Article

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