The prepattern transcription factor Irx2, a target of the FGF8/MAP kinase cascade, is involved in cerebellum formation

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 605-612

  Matsumoto, Ken ^a   Nishihara, Shigeki ^a   Kamimura, Mika ^a   Shiraishi, Tomoki ^b   Otoguro, Takao ^b   Uehara, Masayuki ^b   Maeda, Yukiko ^b   Ogura, Keiko ^a   Lumsden, Andrew ^c   Ogura, Toshihiko ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GBX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IRX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOMEOBOX; IRO GENE; IRX GENE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CEREBELLUM; CHICK EMBRYO; COS CELLS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MICE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 2542477988     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1249     Document Type: Article

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