Pbx proteins cooperate with Engrailed to pattern the midbrain-hindbrain and diencephalic-mesencephalic boundaries

Developmental Biology

Volumn 301, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 504-517

  Erickson, Timothy ^a   Scholpp, Steffen ^b,c   Brand, Michael ^c   Moens, Cecilia B ^d   Jan Waskiewicz, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Diencephalic mesencephalic boundary; Engrailed; Hexapeptide; Lineage restriction; Midbrain; Midbrain hindbrain boundary; Neural patterning; Pbx; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; PROTEIN; PROTEIN EPHA4A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PBX1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETICS; MESENCEPHALON; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 33846258014     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.08.022     Document Type: Article

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