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- Received September 1, 2000
- Revision received November 6, 2000
- Accepted November 14, 2000
- First published February 15, 2001.
- Version of record published February 15, 2001.
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- Received September 1, 2000.
- Revision received November 6, 2000.
- Accepted November 14, 2000.
This study was supported by Spanish Dirección General de Enseñanza Grant PM97-0019 and the European Communities Grant BIO4-CT98-0399 to P.B. The Retina France Association and the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Cultura have supported the postdoctoral work of F.T. P.E. is supported by the Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid Postdoctoral Fellowship 02-0294-1997. We are grateful to the Genetic Institute for the gift of rBMP4 protein, to CreativeBioMolecules for rBMP7 protein and 1B12 blocking antibody, and to Dr. R. Harland for Noggin. Antiserum against the δ-crystallin protein was a gift of Dr. J. Piatigorsky. Many of the probes for in situ hybridization were kindly provided by Drs. P. Brickell, B. Houston, R. Merino, J. Hurle, L. Niswander, and P. ten Dijke. We are indebted to Drs. A. Garda and S. Martinez for teaching bead implantation, to Dr. M. L. Cotrina for comments and expert advice on the TUNEL assay, and to Drs. J. M. Devaud and J. R. Martı́nez-Morales for their expert assistance with the image analysis software and statistical analysis, respectively. Drs. J. Hurle and E. Martı́ provided helpful insights into this manuscript.
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Paola Bovolenta, Instituto Cajal, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Doctor Arce 37, Madrid 28002, Spain. E-mail: bovolenta{at}cajal.csic.es.
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