Transcription factor Lmo4 defines the shape of functional areas in developing cortices and regulates sensorimotor control

Developmental Biology

Volumn 327, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 132-142

  Huang, Zhenyong ^a   Kawase Koga, Yoko ^a   Zhang, Shuqun ^b   Visvader, Jane ^c   Toth, Miklos ^a   Walsh, Christopher A ^d   Sun, Tao ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical functional areas; Lmo4; Sensorimotor control; Somatosensory barrel subfield

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LMO4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

MUS;

EID: 59849119663     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2008.12.003     Document Type: Article

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