An early phase of embryonic Dlx5 expression defines the rostral boundary of the neural plate

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 8322-8330

  Yang, Lu ^a,b   Zhang, Hailan ^a,b   Hu, Gezhi ^a,b   Wang, Hongyu ^a,b   Abate Shen, Gory ^a,b   Shen, Michael M ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative transcripts; Anterior neural ridge; Forebrain; Homeobox gene; Neural crest; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOBOX; MOUSE; NEURAL CREST; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0032531737     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-20-08322.1998     Document Type: Article

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