A role for neural determination genes in specifying the dorsoventral identity of telencephalic neurons

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 67-80

  Fode, Carol ^a   Ma, Qiufu ^b,c   Casarosa, Simona ^a   Ang, Siew Lan ^a   Anderson, David J ^b   Guillemot, François ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

bHLH gene; Cerebral cortex; Mash1; Mouse mutants; Neurogenesis; Neurogenin; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; NEUROGENIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMUS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL LINEAGE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; TELENCEPHALON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033967842     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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