Heterochronic misexpression of Ascl1 in the Atoh7 retinal cell lineage blocks cell cycle exit

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 54, Issue , 2013, Pages 108-120

  Hufnagel, Robert B ^a   Riesenberg, Amy N ^a   Quinn, Malgorzata ^b   Brzezinski, Joseph A ^c   Glaser, Tom ^d,e   Brown, Nadean L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascl1; Atoh7; Cell cycle; Retinal cell competence; Retinal ganglion cell; Retinal neurogenesis

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MASH1;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HETEROZYGOTE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; NEUROGLIA; PHENOTYPE; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 84875602075     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: 10959327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2013.02.004     Document Type: Article

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