Xenopus aristaless-related homeobox (xArx) gene product functions as both a transcriptional activator and repressor in forebrain development

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 232, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 313-324

  Seufert, Daniel W ^a   Prescott, Nichole L ^a   El Hodiri, Heithem M ^a,b  

^a THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aristaless; Arx; Forebrain; Transcription factor; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ARX PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; MOLECULAR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGYRIA; ANOPHTHALMIA; ARISTALESS RELATED HOMEOBOX; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CYCLOPIA; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FOREBRAIN; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NEURAL TUBE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; TADPOLE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X LINKED MENTAL RETARDATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BRAIN; DIENCEPHALON; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURAL CREST; NEURONS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PLASMIDS; PROSENCEPHALON; RNA; TELENCEPHALON; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 12344318105     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20234     Document Type: Article

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