Roles of Hes genes in neural development

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 50, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Kageyama, Ryoichiro ^a,b   Ohtsuka, Toshiyuki ^a,b   Kobayashi, Taeko ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

bHLH gene; Boundary; Compartment; Hes; Neural stem cell

Indexed keywords

MORPHOGEN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 5;

CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURONS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 44249090065     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2008.00993.x     Document Type: Review

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