The Retinal Homeobox (Rx) gene is necessary for retinal regeneration

Developmental Biology

Volumn 353, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 10-18

  Martinez De Luna, Reyna I ^a,d   Kelly, Lisa E ^b   El Hodiri, Heithem M ^a,b,c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Regeneration; Retinal Homeobox; Retinal progenitor cells; ShRNA; Transdifferentiation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; HOMEOBOX; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA INJURY; RETINA STEM CELL; RETINAL HOMEOBOX GENE; STEM CELL; TADPOLE; TISSUE REGENERATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 79953736751     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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