Role of Pax-5 in the regulation of a mid-hindbrain organizer's activity

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 59-72

  Funahashi, Jun ichi ^a,e   Okafuji, Tatsuya ^a   Ohuchi, Hideyo ^b   Noji, Sumihare ^b   Tanaka, Hideaki ^c   Nakamura, Harukazu ^a,d  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Salk Inst for Biological Studies ^*  (Japan)

^e SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Chick; Fgf8; Isthmus; Pax 5; Tectum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; DIENCEPHALON; DNA LIBRARY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; B-CELL-SPECIFIC ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHICK EMBRYO; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESENCEPHALON; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT PROTEINS; WNT1 PROTEIN; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 0033030178     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169x.1999.00401.x     Document Type: Article

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