Engrailed defines the position of dorsal di-mesencephalic boundary by repressing diencephalic fate

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 5127-5135

  Araki, Isato ^a   Nakamura, Harukazu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chick; Di mesencephalic boundary; Engrailed; In ovo electroporation; Mesencephalon; Pax 6; Transcriptional repressor

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; MESENCEPHALON; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHICK EMBRYO; DIENCEPHALON; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESENCEPHALON; MUTATION; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033452315     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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