Zic2 is expressed in pluripotent cells in the blastocyst and adult brain expression overlaps with makers of neurogenesis

Gene Expression Patterns

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-49

  Brown, Lucia ^a   Brown, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult; Brain; Brain malformation; Cerebellum; Holoprosencephaly; Neurogenesis; Pluripotent; Stem cell; Zic; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN ZIC2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BRAIN CELL; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; MALE; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLASTOCYST; BRAIN; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROGENESIS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DANIO RERIO; MUS;

EID: 58149097241     PISSN: 1567133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gep.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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