Pattern formation in the vertebrate neural tube: A sonic hedgehog morphogen-regulated transcriptional network

Development

Volumn 135, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 2489-2503

  Dessaud, Eric ^a   McMahon, Andrew P ^b   Briscoe, James ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; MORPHOGEN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MIGRATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DORSAL ROOT; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH REGULATION; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; VENTRAL ROOT; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; NEURAL TUBE; VERTEBRATES;

ERINACEIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 50649088457     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.009324     Document Type: Review

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