Using neurogenin to reprogram chick RPE to produce photoreceptor-like neurons

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 516-525

  Li, Xiumei ^a,b   Ma, Wenxin ^b   Zhuo, Yehong ^a   Yan, Run Tao ^b   Wang, Shu Zhen ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROGENIN 1; NEUROGENIN 3; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; RECOVERIN; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; TRANSDUCIN; VISININ; AVIAN PROTEIN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CONE OPSIN; NERVE PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EXPLANT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROINJECTION; NEUROGENIN 1 GENE; NEUROGENIN 3 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; CONE OPSINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC VECTORS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RETINAL NEURONS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETROVIRIDAE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNAPTOSOMAL-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; TRANSDUCIN; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 75749142749     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3822     Document Type: Article

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