Reprogramming of the chick retinal pigmented epithelium after retinal injury

BMC Biology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Luz Madrigal, Agustin ^a,b   Grajales Esquivel, Erika ^a   McCorkle, Alexander ^a   DiLorenzo, Ashley M ^a   Barbosa Sabanero, Karla ^a   Tsonis, Panagiotis A ^b   Del Rio Tsonis, Katia ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Regeneration; Retina; Transdifferentiation

Indexed keywords

AVIAN PROTEIN; EYE PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CYCLE; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CHICKEN; DRUG EFFECT; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PATHOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; STEM CELL;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CHICKENS; CILIA; EYE PROTEINS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84901190827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-12-28     Document Type: Article

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