Near complete loss of retinal ganglion cells in the math5/brn3b double knockout elicits severe reductions of other cell types during retinal development

Developmental Biology

Volumn 316, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 214-227

  Moshiri, Ala ^a   Gonzalez, Ernesto ^a   Tagawa, Kunifumi ^a   Maeda, Hidetaka ^b   Wang, Minhua ^b   Frishman, Laura J ^b   Wang, Steven W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

ath5; atoh7; brn3b; Development; math5; Mouse; POU4f2; Progenitor; Retina; RGC

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATH5 GENE; ATOH7 GENE; BRN3B GENE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LOSS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; HISTOGENESIS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MATH5 GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA GANGLION CELL; STEM CELL;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 41149175383     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2008.01.015     Document Type: Article

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