Prolonged glial expression of Sox4 in the CNS leads to architectural cerebellar defects and ataxia

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 5495-5505

  Hoser, Melanie ^a   Baader, Stephan L ^b,c   Bösl, Michael R ^d   Ihmer, Alice ^b   Wegner, Michael ^a   Sock, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Bergmann glia; Cerebellum; High mobility group; Sox4; Sry box

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX4;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ATAXIA; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN MATURATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CEREBELLUM MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GLIA; HYDROCEPHALUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEUROGLIA; RATS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 34249007198     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1384-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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