Discrete localizations of hedgehog signalling components in the developing and adult rat nervous system

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3199-3214

  Traiffort, Elisabeth ^a   Charytoniuk, Dorota ^a   Watroba, Laurent ^a   Faure, Hélène ^a   Sales, Nicole ^b   Ruat, Martial ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE NEUROBIOLOGIE CELLULAIRE ET MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^b SERVICE HOSPITALIER FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT   (France)

Author keywords

Gli1; Medulloblastomas; Motor neuron; Patched; Smoothened

Indexed keywords

MORPHOGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FACIAL NERVE NUCLEUS; FOREBRAIN; GENE CONTROL; GRANULAR CELL; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTROPISM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIGOXIGENIN; FACTOR IX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA; RNA PROBES; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0032850564     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00777.x     Document Type: Article

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