Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10932196 | Developmental Biology | 2012 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
⺠Early optic vesicle cells expressing dorsal markers contribute to dorsal retina. ⺠Bmps are required for initiating dorsal fate prior to bmp expression in retina. ⺠Two bmps are required for dorsal retinal fate initiation, acting extraocularly. ⺠Extraocular bmp2b is required, acting upstream of gdf6a in dorsal retina initiation. ⺠Our work defines a basic mechanism for retinal patterning using extraocular signals.
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Authors
Renee Kruse-Bend, Jude Rosenthal, Tyler S. Quist, Eric S. Veien, Sabine Fuhrmann, Richard I. Dorsky, Chi-Bin Chien,