Genetic interplay between the transcription factors Sp8 and Emx2 in the patterning of the forebrain

Neural Development

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Zembrzycki, Andreas ^a,b   Griesel, Gundula ^a   Stoykova, Anastasia ^a,b   Mansouri, Ahmed ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EMPTY SPIRACLES HOMEOBOX PROTEINS; EYE PROTEIN; FGF8 PROTEIN, MOUSE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SP8 PROTEIN, MOUSE; THYROID NUCLEAR FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POLARITY; CYTOLOGY; DOWN REGULATION; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POLARITY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; EYE PROTEINS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROSENCEPHALON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 34547322124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8104-2-8     Document Type: Article

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