Divergent functions of the proneural genes Mash1 and Ngn2 in the specification of neuronal subtype identity

Genes and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 324-338

  Parras, Carlos M ^a   Schuurmans, Carol ^a,c   Scardigli, Raffaella ^a   Kim, Jaesang ^b   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 Health Sciences Centre Calgary   (Canada)

Author keywords

bHLH factors; CNS; Knock in mutations; Neuronal specification; PNS

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MUTANT; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MASH1 GENE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NGN2 GENE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPINAL CORD; STEM CELL; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION; TELENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LOCUS COERULEUS; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; RNA PROBES; SPINAL CORD; TELENCEPHALON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036467664     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.940902     Document Type: Article

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