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Reyna Martinez-Deluna
SUNY Upstate, Ophthalmology
Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate
Keywords Research Areas: Eye, Development, Retinal progenitor, Retinal stem cell
Synopsis Of Research:
Study gene function during eye development to understand how alterations in the function of these genes result in human blindness. I am particularly interested in the comprehensive study of genes that regulate retinal progenitor specification and differentiation during retinal development.
Mentor: Dr. Michael E. Zuber
Current Or Representative Publications:
- Martinez-De Luna RI, El-Hodiri HM. The xenopus ortholog of the nuclear hormone receptor Nr2e3 is primarily expressed in developing photoreceptors. Int J Dev Biol. 2007;51(3):235-40.
- Martinez-De Luna RI, Kelly LE, El-Hodiri HM. The retinal homeobox (rx) gene is necessary for retinal regeneration. Dev Biol. 2011 May 1;353(1):10-8.
- Martinez-de Luna RI, Moose HE, Kelly LE, Nekkalapudi S, El-Hodiri HM. Regulation of retinal homeobox gene transcription by cooperative activity among cis-elements. Gene. 2010 Nov 1;467(1-2):13-24.
- Pan Y, Martinez-De Luna RI, Lou CH, Nekkalapudi S, Kelly LE, Sater AK, El-Hodiri HM. Regulation of photoreceptor gene expression by the retinal homeobox (rx) gene product. Dev Biol. 2010 Mar 15;339(2):494-506.
- Wilson JM, Martinez-De Luna RI, El Hodiri HM, Smith R, King MW, Mescher AL, Neff AW, Belecky-Adams TL. RNA helicase Ddx39 is expressed in the developing central nervous system, limb, otic vesicle, branchial arches and facial mesenchyme of xenopus laevis. Gene Expr Patterns. 2010 Jan;10(1):44-52.
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