Intrinsically different retinal progenitor cells produce specific types of progeny

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 615-627

  Cepko, Connie ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CRE RECOMBINASE; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; OLIGODENDROCYTE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; OPSIN; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR BETA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MOLECULAR MARKER;

ACHAETE SCUTE COMPLEX; CELL CLONE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN; DAUGHTER CELL; GANGLION; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INHERITANCE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA PROGENITOR CELL; RETROVIRUS; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SERIAL ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; CELL MATURATION; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CHICK; MITOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA; RETINAL PROGENITOR CELL; RETROVIRIDAE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RETINA; STEM CELLS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84906314841     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3767     Document Type: Review

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