Impaired megakaryopoiesis and behavioral defects in MafG-null mutant mice

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 2164-2174

  Shavit, Jordan A ^a   Motohashi, Hozumi ^b   Onodera, Ko ^a   Akasaka, Jun Etsu ^b   Yamamoto, Masayuki ^b   Engel, James Douglas ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene knockouts; Neuronal deficit; Small Maf proteins; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

ONCOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MEGAKARYOPOIESIS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032527757     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.14.2164     Document Type: Article

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