The homeobox gene Phox2b is essential for the development of autonomic neural crest derivatives

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6734, 1999, Pages 366-370

  Pattyn, Alexandre ^a   Morin, Xavier ^a   Cremer, Harold ^a   Goridis, Christo ^a   Brunet, Jean François ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; NORADRENALIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOBOX; MOUSE; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; GANGLIA, AUTONOMIC; GANGLIA, SENSORY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL CREST; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTOR, ERBB-3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033609337     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/20700     Document Type: Article

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