Olig2-positive progenitors in the embryonic spinal cord give rise not only to motoneurons and oligodendrocytes, but also to a subset of astrocytes and ependymal cells

Developmental Biology

Volumn 293, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 358-369

  Masahira, Noritaka ^a,b   Takebayashi, Hirohide ^a   Ono, Katsuhiko ^a   Watanabe, Keisuke ^a   Ding, Lei ^a   Furusho, Miki ^a   Ogawa, Yasuhiro ^a   Nabeshima, Yo ichi ^c   Alvarez Buylla, Arturo ^d   Shimizu, Keiji ^b   Ikenaka, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; CreER; Ependymal cell; Glia limitans; Lineage tracing; Motoneuron; Olig2; Oligodendrocyte; Radial glia; Recombination

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; OLIGODENDROCYTE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CELL TYPE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EMBRYO; EPENDYMA CELL; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646198141     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.02.029     Document Type: Article

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