COUP-TFI coordinates cortical patterning, neurogenesis, and laminar fate and modulates MAPK/ERK, AKT, and β-catenin signaling

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2117-2131

  Faedo, Andrea ^a   Tomassy, Giulio Srubek ^b   Ruan, Youlin ^a   Teichmann, Hannah ^b   Krauss, Stefan ^c   Pleasure, Samuel J ^d   Tsai, Sophia Y ^e   Tsai, Ming Jer ^e   Studer, Michèle ^b   Rubenstein, John L R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TELETHON INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND MEDICINE TIGEM   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

catenin; COUP TFI; Mapk Erk; Neurogenesis; PI3K Akt; Proliferation

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CHICKEN OVALBUMIN UPSTREAM PROMOTER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CELL DIVISION; COUP TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR I; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; NEOCORTEX; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; STEM CELLS;

EID: 54049156802     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm238     Document Type: Article

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