The homeodomain factor Xanf represses expression of genes in the presumptive rostral forebrain that specify more caudal brain regions

Developmental Biology

Volumn 307, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 483-497

  Ermakova, Galina V ^a   Solovieva, Elena A ^a   Martynova, Natalia Y ^a   Zaraisky, Andrey G ^a  

^a SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Forebrain; Homeobox genes; Patterning of the neural plate

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR XANF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; INHIBITION KINETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; VERTEBRATE;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 34347205679     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.03.524     Document Type: Article

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