Requirement for LIM homeobox gene Isl1 in motor neuron generation reveals a motor neuron-dependent step in interneuron differentiation

Cell

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 309-320

  Pfaff, Samuel L ^a   Mendelsohn, Monica ^a   Stewart, Colin L ^b   Edlund, Thomas ^c   Jessell, Thomas M ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b HOFFMANN LA ROCHE INC   (United States)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; HOMEOBOX; HOMOZYGOTE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0030051923     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80985-X     Document Type: Article

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