GAD isoforms exhibit distinct spatiotemporal expression patterns in the developing mouse lens: Correlation with Dlx2 and Dlx5

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 236, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3532-3544

  Kwakowsky, Andrea ^a   Schwirtlich, Marija ^a   Zhang, Qi ^b   Eisenstat, David D ^b   Erdélyi, Ferenc ^a   Baranyi, Maria ^a   Katarova, Zoya D ^a   Szabó, Gábor ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dlx; Embryonic GAD; GABA; GAD65; GAD65 gfp transgenic mice; GAD67; Lens fiber cells; Prox1

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DLX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DLX5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO; FIBER; LENS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; ISOENZYMES; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 37249028599     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21361     Document Type: Article

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