Vertebrate eye development /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer-Verlag,
[2000]
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| Series: | Results and problems in cell differentiation.
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Table of Contents:
- Vertebrate eye development and refractive function: an overview / Barbara Sivak, Jacob Sivak
- Introduction and general eye development
- Eye development and optical function
- Visual environment and eye development
- Early pattern formation
- Pax6 and the genetic control of early eye development / Stefan Wawersik, Patricia Purcell, Richard L. Mass
- Pax6 plays a critical role in vertebrate ocular development
- Molecular biology of the Pax6 gene product
- Genomic structure and transcriptional regulation of Pax6
- Pax6 in Drosophila: master regulator or network manager?
- From fly to mouse: identifying Pax6 target genes
- Early retinal development in Drosophila / Ulrike Heberlein, Jessica E. Treisman
- Specification of the eye primordium
- Dorsal-ventral patterning and growth of the eye disc
- Initiation of differentiation
- How are specification and initiation related?
- Progression of differentiation
- Embryonic induction
- Induction of the lens / Nicolas Hirsch, Robert M. Grainger
- A historical overview of the study of lens induction
- Competence
- Bias
- Inhibition
- Specification
- Differentiation
- Retinal differentiation
- Molecular control of cell diversification in the vertebrate retina / Sabine Fuhrmann, Lely Chow, Thomas A. Reh
- Does a code of transcription factors define retinal cell identities?
- Do extracellular signals define retinal identities?
- Cell fate specification in the Drosophila retina / Justin P. Kumar, Kevin Moses
- The R8 photoreceptor cell
- The R7 photoreceptor cell
- Roles of the extracellular matrix in retinal development and maintenance / Richard T. Libby, William J. Brunken, Dale D. Hunter
- Multiple extrinsic cues are involved in retinal development
- Laminins
- Laminins and photoreceptor development
- Role of the interphotoreceptor matrix in maintaining photoreceptor viability
- Adhesive events in retinal development and function: the role of integrin receptors / Dennis O. Clegg ... [et al.]
- Integrins in the developing retina
- Integrins in the mature retina
- Future directions
- Formation of neural pathways for vision
- Connecting the eye with the brain: the formation of the retinotectal pathway / Karl G. Johnson, William A. Harris
- The retinotectal pathway
- Regeneration
- Regeneration of the lens in amphibians / Panagiotis A. Tsonis
- Phylogeny
- Histological and cellular events
- Molecular biology and gene regulation
- In vitro systems for lens regeneration
- Clinical applications
- How the neural retina regenerates / Pamela A. Raymond, Peter F. Hitchcock
- Neurogenesis and neuronal stem cells
- Regeneration of the neural retina in adult urodele amphibians
- Regeneration of the neural retina in adult teleost fish
- A model of retinal injury in fish, amphibians and mammals
- Genetic models
- Mouse mutants for eye development / Jochen Graw
- Mutations affecting early eye development
- Maturation of the eye (1): lens development
- Maturation of the eye (2): cornea, iris, and ciliary body
- Maturation of the eye (3): the retina
- Genetic analysis of eye development in zebrafish / Jarema Malicki
- Genetic screens in zebrafish
- Currently available eye mutants
- Future prospects of zebrafish genetics.