The Wnt/β-catenin pathway directs neuronal differentation of cortical neural precursor cells

Development

Volumn 131, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2791-2801

  Hirabayashi, Yusuke ^a   Itoh, Yasuhiro ^a   Tabata, Hidenori ^b,c   Nakajima, Kazunori ^b,c   Akiyama, Tetsu ^a   Masuyama, Norihisa ^a   Gotoh, Yukiko ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

catenin; Mouse; Neocortex; Neural precursor cell; Neurogenesis; Wnt

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; NERVE PROTEIN; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL RENEWAL; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA CATENIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; EXTREMITIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; WNT PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 3242889925     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01165     Document Type: Article

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