Lbx1 and Tlx3 are opposing switches in determining GABAergic versus glutamatergic transmitter phenotypes

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1510-1515

  Cheng, Leping ^a,d   Samad, Omar Abdel ^a   Xu, Yi ^a   Mizuguchi, Rumiko ^b   Luo, Ping ^a,d   Shirasawa, Senji ^c   Goulding, Martyn ^b   Ma, Qiufu ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

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

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LBX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TLX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TLX3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHICKEN; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GLUTAMATERGIC TRANSMISSION; HOMEOBOX; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOENZYMES; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; SPINAL CORD; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2;

EID: 27644445358     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1569     Document Type: Article

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