E2F4 is required for early eye patterning

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 238-246

  Ruzhynsky, Vladimir A ^a   Furimsky, Marosh ^b,c   Park, David S ^a   Wallace, Valerie A ^b,c   Slack, Ruth S ^a,b  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; E2F; Morphogenesis; Nervous system

Indexed keywords

SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F4;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLOBOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE COLOR; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYE MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENE DELETION; MARKER GENE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC DISK CUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; E2F4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROGENESIS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 67649108910     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000210186     Document Type: Article

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