Functional roles of Otx2 transcription factor in postnatal mouse retinal development

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 8318-8329

  Koike, Chieko ^a   Nishida, Akihiro ^a   Ueno, Shinji ^e   Saito, Hiromitsu ^d   Sanuki, Rikako ^a   Sato, Shigeru ^a,b   Furukawa, Akiko ^a   Aizawa, Shinichi ^c   Matsuo, Isao ^c   Suzuki, Noboru ^d   Kondo, Mineo ^e   Furukawa, Takahisa ^a  

^a OSAKA BIOSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN CRX; PROTEIN KINASE C; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CLONE CELLS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTEGRASES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NIH 3T3 CELLS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTORS; RETINA; RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLS; RETROVIRIDAE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

MUS;

EID: 36849048682     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01209-07     Document Type: Article

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