Six3 repression of Wnt signaling in the anterior neuroectoderm is essential for vertebrate forebrain development

Genes and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 368-379

  Lagutin, Oleg V ^a   Zhu, Changqi C ^a   Kobayashi, Daisuke ^b   Topczewski, Jacek ^c   Shimamura, Kenji ^b   Puelles, Luis ^d   Russell, Helen R C ^a   McKinnon, Peter J ^a   Solnica Krezel, Lilianna ^c   Oliver, Guillermo ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Forebrain; Homeobox; Mouse; Six3; Wnt; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIX3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL FATE; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FOREBRAIN; GENE REPRESSION; MESENCEPHALON; MESODERM; MOUSE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ECTODERM; EYE PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS; WNT1 PROTEIN; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037314194     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1059403     Document Type: Article

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