Targeted deletion of dicer disrupts lens morphogenesis, corneal epithelium stratification, and whole eye development

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 238, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2388-2400

  Li, Yan ^a   Piatigorsky, Joram ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dicer; Lens development; MicroRNA

Indexed keywords

DICER; MICRORNA; PROTEIN P53; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; DICER GENE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; LENS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROPHTHALMIA; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MICRORNAS; MORPHOGENESIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MUS;

EID: 70349116543     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.22056     Document Type: Article

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