Dorsal-ventral patterning of the spinal cord requires Gli3 transcriptional repressor activity

Genes and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 2865-2878

  Persson, Madelen ^a   Stamataki, Despina ^b   Welscher, Pascal Te ^c   Andersson, Elisabet ^a   Böse, Jens ^d   Rüther, Ulrich ^d   Ericson, Johan ^a   Briscoe, James ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dorsal ventral patterning; Gli; Neural tube; Shh

Indexed keywords

SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; MOUSE; MUTANT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CHICK EMBRYO; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPINAL CORD; STEM CELLS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 0037111829     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.243402     Document Type: Article

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