Robust marking of photoreceptor cells and pinealocytes with several reporters under control of the Crx gene

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 238, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3218-3225

  Samson, Maria ^a,b   Emerson, Mark M ^a   Cepko, Constance L ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CURIS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

BAC transgenic; Crx; Photoreceptors; Reporter; Retina

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRX GENE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PINEAL BODY; PINEALOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LAC OPERON; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; PINEAL GLAND; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; STAINING AND LABELING; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSGENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70949095015     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.22138     Document Type: Article

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