Islet-1 controls the differentiation of retinal bipolar and cholinergic amacrine cells

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 46, 2007, Pages 12707-12720

  Elshatory, Yasser ^a   Everhart, Drew ^b   Deng, Min ^a   Xie, Xiaoling ^a   Barlow, Robert B ^b   Gan, Lin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Box 645 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Amacrine; Differentiation; ERG (electroretinogram); Optomotor behavior; Retina; Retinal bipolar cell; Retinal ganglion cell; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; ISLET 1 PROTEIN; LIM PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL TYPE; CHIMERA; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOSAICISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISION; WILD TYPE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RETINA; RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 36248950219     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3951-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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