Six3 controls the neural progenitor status in the murine CNS

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 553-562

  Appolloni, Irene ^a,b,c   Calzolari, Filippo ^a,b,c   Corte, Giorgio ^a,c   Perris, Roberto ^b,d   Malatesta, Paolo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Homeobox transcription factors; Neural stem cells; Retroviral lineage tracing

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIX3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL EXPANSION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO CELL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMAL; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STEM CELL; TELENCEPHALON; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NIH 3T3 CELLS; STEM CELLS; TELENCEPHALON; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 39349102866     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm092     Document Type: Article

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