A unique combination of transcription factors controls differentiation of thyroid cells

Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology

Volumn 66, Issue , 2000, Pages 307-356

  Damante, Giuseppe ^a   Tell, Gianluca ^a   Di Lauro, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXE1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PAX8 PROTEIN, HUMAN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; THYROID NUCLEAR FACTOR 1; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; CYTOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; THYROID GLAND;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; THYROID GLAND; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0035202331     PISSN: 00796603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(00)66033-6     Document Type: Review

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