Gli1 is a target of Sonic hedgehog that induces ventral neural tube development

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 2537-2552

  Lee, Jeffrey ^a   Platt, Kenneth A ^a,b   Censullo, Patricia ^a   Ruiz I Altaba, Ariel ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LEXICON PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cubitus interruptus; Floor plate; Gli; Mouse neural tube; Shh; Sonic hedgehog; Xenopus; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

ETOPOSIDE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; FROG; GASTRULATION; GENE TARGETING; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSACTIVATION; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHIMERA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GENE LIBRARY; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3-BETA; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS PROTEIN VMW65; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASMS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; CUBITUS; CUBITUS INTERRUPTUS; ERINACEIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030805592     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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