Early specification of sensory neuron fate revealed by expression and function of neurogenins in the chick embryo

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1715-1728

  Perez, Sharon E ^a   Rebelo, Sandra ^b   Anderson, David J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Inst of Pharmacol and Therapeutics   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Chick embryo; Expression; Neural crest; Neurogenin; Sensory lineage

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; NEUROGENIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL MIGRATION; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO; MESODERM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORY GANGLION; SENSORY NERVE CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHICK EMBRYO; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GANGLIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL CREST; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0032960888     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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