A regulatory sequence from the retinoid X receptor γ gene directs expression to horizontal cells and photoreceptors in the embryonic chicken retina

Molecular Vision

Volumn 22, Issue , 2016, Pages 1405-1420

  Blixt, Maria K E ^a   Hallböök, Finn ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CRE RECOMBINASE; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OPSIN; RETINOID X RECEPTOR GAMMA; RHODOPSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; VISININ; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CHICKEN; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DONOR-HOST CELL INTERACTION; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE VECTOR; GENOMICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; OTX2 GENE; PAX6 GENE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPORTER GENE; RETINA CELL; RETINA HORIZONTAL NERVE CELL; RETINOID X RECEPTOR GAMMA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA; VERTEBRATE PHOTORECEPTOR CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTEGRASES; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PAX6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETINA; RETINAL HORIZONTAL CELLS; RETINOID X RECEPTOR GAMMA;

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