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Cell Cycle Regulation Of Retinal Progenitors; A Role For The Nance-Horan Syndrome Protein In Retinogenesis, Paul J. Vorster Jan 2015

Cell Cycle Regulation Of Retinal Progenitors; A Role For The Nance-Horan Syndrome Protein In Retinogenesis, Paul J. Vorster

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The Nance-Horan syndrome gene (NHS) plays a role in lens, eye and brain development. To date, the function of NHS remains unclear. Recent evidence showed that p53 isoform, Δ113p53, inhibits abnormal cell growth during organogenesis. We show that NHS is expressed in the retinas of Danio rerio and Xenopus tropicalis during key stages of retinogenesis, and that knockdown of the gene resulted in a small eye phenotype in both species. Initially, knockdown of nhsb in zebrafish had no visible defects at 24hpf. But examination of the retina at 48hpf, we see a marked difference in size compared to control embryos. …