Neurogenin 2 is required for the development of ventral midbrain dopaminergic neurons

Development

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 495-505

  Kele, Julianna ^a   Simplicio, Nicolas ^b   Ferri, Anna L M ^b   Mira, Helena ^a,c   Guillemot, François ^b   Arenas, Ernest ^a   Ang, Siew Lan ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cell fate specification; Differentiation; Nurr1; Parkinson's disease; Proneural genes; Sox2; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; NEUROGENIN 1; NEUROGENIN 2; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR RELATED FACTOR 1; PROTEIN MASH1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MITOSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; STEM CELLS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33244496187     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02223     Document Type: Article

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