Sensitivity of proneural genes to lateral inhibition affects the pattern of primary neurons in Xenopus embryos

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2295-2301

  Chitnis, Ajay ^a,b   Kintner, Chris ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

NeuroD; Neurogenic genes; Primary neurons; Proneural genes; XASH 3

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REGULATOR; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURONS; RNA; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030018563     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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