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Nickerson PEB, Ronellenfitch K, McEwan J, Kim H, McInnes RR, Chow RL (2011) A transgenic mouse line expressing Cre recombinase in undifferentiated postmitotic mouse retinal bipolar cell precursors, PLoS ONE 6(10): e27145. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0027145

Shi Z, Trenholm S, Zhu M, Buddingh S, Awatramani G, Chow RL. (2011) Vsx1 regulates Type 7 ON bipolar cell terminal differentiation, The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(37):13118-27.

Shi Z, Jervis D, Nickerson PE, Chow RL (2011) A requirement for the paired-like homeodomain transcription factor Vsx1 in Type 3a mouse retinal bipolar cell terminal differentiation. J Comp Neurol., doi: 10.1002/cne.22697 [Epub ahead of print]

Watson T, Chow RL (2011) Absence of Vsx1 expression in the normal and damaged mouse cornea, Mol Vis., 17:737-44.

Nickerson PE, Myers T, Clarke DB, Chow RL. (2011) Changes in Musashi-1 subcellular localization correlate with cell cycle exit during postnatal retinal development. Exp Eye Res., 92(5):344-52.

Kerschensteiner D, Liu H, Cheng CW, Demas J, Cheng SH, Hui CC, Chow RL, Wong ROL. (2008) Genetic control of circuit function: Vsx1 and Irx5 transcription factors regulate contrast adaptation in the mouse retina. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(10):2342-52.

Clark AM, Yun S, Veien ES, Wu YY, Chow RL, Dorsky RI, Levine EM. (2008) Negative regulation of Vsx1 by its paralog Chx10/Vsx2 is conserved in the vertebrate retina. Brain Res. 1192:99-113.

Feng L, Xie X, Joshi PS, Yang Z, Shibasaki K, Chow RL, Gan L. (2006) Requirement for Bhlhb5 in the specification of amacrine and cone bipolar subtypes in mouse retina. Development, 133(24):4815-25.

Cheng CW, Chow RL, Lebel M, Sakuma R, Cheung HO, Thanabalasingham V, Zhang X, Bruneau X, Birch DG, Hui Cc, McInnes RR, Cheng CH, (2005). The Iroquois homeobox gene, Irx5, is required for retinal cone bipolar cell development, Developmental Biology, 287(1), 48-60.

Chow RL, Volgyi B, Szilard RK, Ng D, McKerlie C, Bloomfield SA, Birch DG, McInnes RR (2004). Control of late off-center cone bipolar cell differentiation and visual signaling by the homeobox gene Vsx1. Proc. Nat’l Acad. Sci., 101:(6), 1754–1759.

Héon E, Greenberg A, Kopp KK, Rootman D, Vincent AL, Billingsley G, Priston M, Dorval K, Chow RL, McInnes RR, Heathcote G, Westall C, Sutphin C, Semina E, Bremner R, Stone EM (2002). VSX1: A gene for posterior polymorphous dystrophy and keratoconus. Human Molecular Genetics 11(9), 1029-1036.

Chow RL, Snow B, Novak J, Looser J, Freund C, Vidgen D, Ploder L, McInnes RR (2001). Vsx1, a rapidly evolving paired-like homeobox gene expressed in cone bipolar cells. Mechanisms of Development 109, 313-319.

Chow RL, Lang RA. (2001). Early Eye Development in Vertebrates. Annual Reviews in Cell and Developmental Biology 17, 255-296.

Chow RL, Altmann CR, Lang RA, Hemmati-Brivanlou A. (1999). Pax6 induces ectopic eyes in a vertebrate. Development 126, 4213-22.

Williams SC, Altmann CR, Chow RL, Hemmati-Brivanlou A, Lang RA. (1998). A highly conserved lens transcriptional control element from the Pax-6 gene. Mechanisms of Development 73, 225-9.

Altmann CR, Chow RL, Lang RA, Hemmati-Brivanlou A. (1997). Lens induction by Pax-6 in Xenopus laevis. Developmental Biology 185, 119-23.

Chow RL, Roux GD, Roghani M, Palmer MA, Rifkin DB, Moscatelli DA, Lang RA. (1995). FGF suppresses apoptosis and induces differentiation of fibre cells in the mouse lens. Development 121, 4383-93.

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