The mouse Dreher gene Lmx1a controls formation of the roof plate in the vertebrate CNS

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6771, 2000, Pages 764-769

  Millonig, James H ^a,b   Millen, Kathleen J ^a   Hatten, Mary E ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; GENE CONTROL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSSES, GENETIC; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0034677480     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35001573     Document Type: Article

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