Glial development in the Drosophila CNS requires concomitant activation of glial and repression of neuronal differentiation genes

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2307-2316

  Giesen, Kay ^a,d   Hummel, Thomas ^a,d   Stollewerk, Angelika ^a   Harrison, Stephen ^b,c   Travers, Andrew ^b   Klämbt, Christian ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

CNS; Drosophila; gcm; Glial cell; Neuron; Pointed; Tramtrack

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GLIA CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030746394     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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