Tlx3 and Tlx1 are post-mitotic selector genes determining glutamatergic over GABAergic cell fates

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 510-517

  Cheng, Leping ^a   Arata, Akiko ^b   Mizuguchi, Rumiko ^c   Qian, Ying ^a   Karunaratne, Asanka ^c   Gray, Paul A ^a   Arata, Satoru ^d   Shirasawa, Senji ^e   Bouchard, Maxime ^f   Luo, Ping ^a   Chen, Chih Li ^a   Busslinger, Meinrad ^f   Goulding, Martyn ^c   Onimaru, Hiroshi ^g   Ma, Qiufu ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^d SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^g SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; KAINIC ACID RECEPTOR; PROTEIN GRIK 2; PROTEIN GRIK 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; HOMEOBOX; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE; TLX1 GENE; TLX3 GENE; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BICUCULLINE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; ISOENZYMES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, KAINIC ACID; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2; VESICULAR INHIBITORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORT PROTEINS; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 11144353684     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1221     Document Type: Article

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