NeuroD1 is required for survival of photoreceptors but not pinealocytes: Results from targeted gene deletion studies

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-59

  Ochocinska, Margaret J ^a   Muñoz, Estela M ^b   Veleri, Shobi ^c   Weller, Joan L ^a   Coon, Steven L ^a   Pozdeyev, Nikita ^d   Michael Iuvone, P ^d   Goebbels, Sandra ^e   Furukawa, Takahisa ^f   Klein, David C ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CUYO   (Argentina)

^c NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^f OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

gene expression; microarray; NeuroD1; pineal gland; retina; transcriptome profiling

Indexed keywords

NEUROGENIC DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; OPSIN; RHO FACTOR;

AIPL1 GENE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANKRD33 GENE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROD1 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR HOMEOSTASIS; PINEAL BODY; PINEALOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINAL FUNCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL SURVIVAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MUCOPROTEINS; OPSINS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; PINEAL GLAND; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MUS;

EID: 84866250550     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2012.07870.x     Document Type: Article

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