Engrailed genes are cell-autonomously required to prevent apoptosis in mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons

Development

Volumn 131, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 3229-3236

  Albéri, Lavinia ^a   Sgadò, Paola ^a   Simon, Horst H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Neurodegenerative disease; Neuronal differentition; Neuronal survival; Transcription factors; Ventral tegmentum

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN ENGRAILED; RNA; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CELL MUTANT; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC REGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MESENCEPHALON; MITOSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MUTAGENESIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELL DEATH; CELLS, CULTURED; COLORING AGENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE; GENE DELETION; GENE SILENCING; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCEPHALON; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; NEURONS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PARKINSON DISEASE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 4043165474     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01128     Document Type: Article

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