EN and GBX2 play essential roles downstream of FGF8 in patterning the mouse mid/hindbrain region

Development

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 181-191

  Liu, A ^a   Joyner, A L ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Engrailed; Fibrolast growth factor; Gbx2; Lmx1b; Mouse; Organizer; Otx2; Pax5; Pax6; Wnt1

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EPISTASIS; EXPLANT; FOREBRAIN; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE LOSS; GENE REPRESSION; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RHOMBENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; B-CELL-SPECIFIC ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESENCEPHALON; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT PROTEINS; WNT1 PROTEIN; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0035141207     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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