The HMG-box transcription factor XTcf-4 demarcates the forebrain-midbrain boundary

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 93, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 211-214

  König, Alexander ^a   Gradl, Dietmar ^a   Kühl, Michael ^a   Wedlich, Doris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forebrain midbrain boundary; HMG box; Lef; Midbrain; Pretectum; Tcf; Thalamus; Transcription factor; Wnt 1 Wg; Xaxin; Xenopus; Xwnt 1; Xwnt 2; Xwnt 3a; Xwnt 4

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XATIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; MESENCEPHALON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORULA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HUMANS; MESENCEPHALON; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROSENCEPHALON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TCF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

MURINAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A;

EID: 0242564352     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(00)00266-5     Document Type: Article

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