Intrinsic control of mammalian retinogenesis

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 2519-2532

  Xiang, Mengqing ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dll4 Notch signaling; Foxn4; Non coding RNA; Retinal progenitor cell; Retinogenesis; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE INDUCED MATURATION PROTEIN 1; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DICER; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; IKAROS TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; LIM HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MICRORNA; NEUROGENIC DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; NEUROGENIN 2; NOTCH RECEPTOR; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; THYROID HORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CRX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RAX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

BIOINFORMATICS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL TYPE; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; MUELLER CELL; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA HORIZONTAL NERVE CELL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84879571668     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-012-1183-2     Document Type: Review

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