Altered expression of the iron transporter Nramp1 (Slc11a1) during fetal development of the retinal pigment epithelium in microphthalmia-associated transcription factor Mitfmi and Mitfvitiligo mouse mutants

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 419-433

  Gelineau van Waes, J ^a   Smith, L ^a   van Waes, M ^b   Wilberding, J ^a   Eudy, J D ^a   Bauer, L K ^a   Maddox, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LI COR BIOSCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

gene expression; iron homeostasis; melanosome; microphthalmia associated transcription factor (Mitf); Nramp1 (Slc11a1); retinal degeneration; retinal pigment epithelium (RPE); vitiligo mouse mutant

Indexed keywords

CATION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; EPOXIDE HYDROLASE; IRON BINDING PROTEIN; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PROTEIN NRAMP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HOMOZYGOSITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA DEGENERATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEOSTASIS; IRON; MELANOSOMES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MICROPHTHALMOS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL PIGMENTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 39149104323     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2007.11.015     Document Type: Article

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