A complex regulatory network of transcription factors critical for ocular development and disease

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1610-1624

  Acharya, Moulinath ^a   Huang, LiJia ^a   Fleisch, Valerie C ^a   Allison, W Ted ^a   Walter, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 19; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXC1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXC2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PRKC APOPTOSIS WILMS TUMOR 1 REGULATOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; CELL LINE; EYE; EYE DISEASES; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENE SILENCING; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LARVA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 79953118236     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddr038     Document Type: Article

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