Impaired development of melanoblasts in the black-eyed white Mitf mi-bw mouse, a model for auditory-pigmentary disorders

Genes to Cells

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 494-508

  Hozumi, Hiroki ^a,b   Takeda, Kazuhisa ^a   Yoshida Amano, Yasuko ^b   Takemoto, Yuji ^b   Kusumi, Ryota ^b   Fukuzaki Dohi, Urara ^b   Higashitani, Atsushi ^b   Yamamoto, Hiroaki ^c   Shibahara, Shigeki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGAHAMA INSTITUTE OF BIO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LOSS; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MELANOCYTE; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; DEAFNESS; MELANOCYTES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN;

EID: 84861483787     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: 13652443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2012.01603.x     Document Type: Article

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