MicroRNA-9 directs late organizer activity of the midbrain-hindbrain boundary

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 641-648

  Leucht, Christoph ^a   Stigloher, Christian ^a   Wizenmann, Andrea ^a,b   Klafke, Ruth ^a   Folchert, Anja ^a   Bally Cuif, Laure ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 1; MICRORNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MESENCEPHALON; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BODY PATTERNING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MESENCEPHALON; MICRORNAS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ORGANIZERS, EMBRYONIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RHOMBENCEPHALON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 44349088251     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2115     Document Type: Article

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