Overlapping expression patterns and redundant roles for AP-2 transcription factors in the developing mammalian retina

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 241, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 814-829

  Bassett, Erin A ^a   Korol, Anna ^a   Deschamps, Paula A ^a   Buettner, Reinhard ^b   Wallace, Valerie A ^c,d   Williams, Trevor ^e   West Mays, Judith A ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Amacrine cell; AP 2 transcription factors; Horizontal cell; Redundant roles; Retinal development; Tcfap2a b double mutant

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2ALPHA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA HORIZONTAL NERVE CELL;

AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; ORGANOGENESIS; RETINA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-2;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84858244928     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.23762     Document Type: Article

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