β-catenin-mediated Wnt signaling regulates neurogenesis in the ventral telencephalon

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1383-1391

  Gulacsi, Alexandra A ^a,b   Anderson, Stewart A ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELENCEPHALON;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BETA CATENIN; BODY PATTERNING; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TCF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TELENCEPHALON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 56749098073     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2226     Document Type: Article

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