Kruppel, a Drosophila segmentation gene,participates in the specification of neurons and glial cells

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 95-107

  Romani, Susana ^a,d   Jimenez, Fernando ^b   Hoch, Michael ^a   Patel, Nipam H ^c   Taubert, Heike ^a   Jäckle, Herbert ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drosophila neurogenesis; Glia cell differentiation; Minigene rescue; Serotoninergic neurons; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; KRUPPEL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE CONTROL; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE; GENETICS; GLIA; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENES, INSECT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030277448     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(96)00603-X     Document Type: Article

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