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Mash1 promotes neuronal differentiation in the retina.
Genes to cells : devoted to molecular & cellular mechanisms - 1 Aug 1996
Tomita K, Nakanishi S, Guillemot F, Kageyama R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Mash1, a mammalian homologue of Drosophila achaete-scute proneural gene complex, plays an essential role in differentiation of subsets of peripheral neurones. Whereas Mash1 is expressed during retinal development, no apparent abnormalities were found during embryogenesis as well as at birth in Mash1-null retina, suggesting that early differentiating cells such as ganglion, amacrine and cone cells...
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