Pax6 defines the di-mesencephalic boundary by repressing En1 and Pax2

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2357-2365

  Matsunaga, Eiji ^a   Araki, Isato ^a,b   Nakamura, Harukazu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chick; Di mesencephalic boundary; En1; In ovo electroporation; Pax2; Pax6

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; FOREBRAIN; HISTOLOGY; MARKER GENE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESENCEPHALON; MICE; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TCF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034085654     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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