Expression of zebrafish bHLH genes ngn1 and nrd defines distinct stages of neural differentiation

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 92-104

  Korzh, Vladimir ^a   Sleptsova, Inna ^a   Liao, Ji ^a   He, Jiangyan ^a   Gong, Zhiyuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Determination; Differentiation; Islet 1; Motoneurons; Neural retina; Neuronal bHLH; Pax b; Primary neurons

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NEUROEPITHELIAL LAYER; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 0031823243     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199809)213:1<92::AID-AJA9>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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