Defects in sensory and autonomic ganglia and absence of locus coeruleus in mice deficient for the homeobox gene Phox2a

Neuron

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 411-423

  Morin, Xavier ^a   Cremer, Harold ^a   Hirsch, Marie Rose ^a   Kapur, Raj P ^b   Goridis, Christo ^a   Brunet, Jean François ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; LOCUS CERULEUS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC GANGLION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORY GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION;

EID: 0030936255     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)81242-8     Document Type: Article

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