A requirement for retinoic acid-mediated transcriptional activation in ventral neural patterning and motor neuron specification

Neuron

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 81-95

  Novitch, Bennett G ^a   Wichterle, Hynek ^a   Jessell, Thomas M ^a   Sockanathan, Shanthini ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VENTRAL ROOT;

EID: 0141862010     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2003.08.006     Document Type: Article

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