Making of a retinal cell: Insights into retinal cell-fate determination

International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology

Volumn 308, Issue , 2014, Pages 273-321

  Goetz, Jillian J ^a   Farris, Caitlin ^a   Chowdhury, Rebecca ^a   Trimarchi, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell fate; Retina; Signaling; Stochastic; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; DICER; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 1; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GLYCINE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NEUROGENIC DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NOTCH RECEPTOR; NUCLEAR RNA; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE SHP 2; RETINAL HOMEOBOX 1 PROTEIN; SMOOTHENED PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; SYNTAXIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ACSL1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ATH5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DLX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DLX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MASH1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; VISUAL SYSTEM HOMEOBOX 2 PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TYPE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; DENDRITE; EPIGENETICS; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; MUELLER CELL; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CELL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA HORIZONTAL NERVE CELL; RETINA STEM CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; RETINA;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; RETINA;

EID: 84892145103     PISSN: 19376448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800097-7.00007-5     Document Type: Chapter

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