Pax-6 is involved in the specification of hindbrain motor neuron subtype

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 2961-2972

  Osumi, Noriko ^a,f   Hirota, Arisa ^a   Ohuchi, Hideyo ^b   Nakafuku, Masato ^c   Iimura, Tadahiro ^a   Kuratani, Shigeru ^d   Fujiwara, Michio ^e   Noji, Sumihare ^b   Eto, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^c NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e ASTELLAS PHARMA INC   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Islet 1; Islet 2; LIM homeobox genes; Lim 3; Motor neuron; Pax 6; Rat; Small eye; Wnt

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; HOMEOBOX; HOMOZYGOSITY; MICROPHTHALMIA; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RHOMBENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CRANIAL NERVES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EYE ABNORMALITIES; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTATION; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030818548     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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