SOX3 is required during the formation of the hypothalamo-pituitary axis

Nature Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 247-255

  Rizzoti, Karine ^a   Brunelli, Silvia ^a,c   Carmignac, Danielle ^a   Thomas, Paul Q ^b   Robinson, Iain C ^a   Lovell Badge, Robin ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c Stem Cell Research Institute   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INFUNDIBULUM; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RATHKE POUCH; SECRETORY CELL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1442360429     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1309     Document Type: Article

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