CERKL Knockdown Causes Retinal Degeneration in Zebrafish

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Riera, Marina ^a,b   Burguera, Demian ^a   Garcia Fernàndez, Jordi ^a   Gonzàlez Duarte, Roser ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROGENIC DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CERKL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTIC DISK CUP; PROMOTER REGION; RETINA CELL; RETINA DEGENERATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84877320746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064048     Document Type: Article

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