Nurr1, an orphan nuclear receptor, is a transcriptional activator of endogenous tyrosine hydroxylase in neural progenitor cells derived from the adult brain

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 4017-4026

  Sakurada, Kazuhiro ^a   Ohshima Sakurada, Mikiko ^a   Palmer, Theo D ^a   Gage, Fred H ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Nurr1; Stem cells; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BRAIN; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOPAMINE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTEINS; RATS; RECEPTOR, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR, TYPE 3; RECEPTORS, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; SERUM AMYLOID P-COMPONENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMALIA; ERINACEIDAE; HIPPOCAMPUS HIPPOCAMPUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032874648     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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