Melanocyte development in vivo and in neural crest cell cultures: Crucial dependence on the Mitf basic-helix-loop-helix-zipper transcription factor

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2377-2386

  Opdecamp, Karin ^a,c   Nakayama, Atsuo ^a,d   Nguyen, Minh Thanh T ^a   Hodgkinson, Colin A ^a,e   Pavan, William J ^b   Arnheiter, Heinz ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Differ'n Cell et Molec   (France)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

DOPAchrome tautomerase; Endothelin 3; Endothelin B receptor; Kit; Mast cell growth factor; Steel factor; Stem cell factor; Trp2; Tyrosinase related protein 2

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; MELANOCYTE; MOUSE; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; ENDOTHELIN-3; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INTRAMOLECULAR OXIDOREDUCTASES; ISOMERASES; MELANOCYTES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEURAL CREST; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030746395     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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