The tyrosinase promoter is active in a subset of vagal neural crest cells during early development in mice

Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 331-334

  Puig, Isabel ^a,b   Yajima, Ichiro ^a,b,c   Bonaventure, Jacky ^a,b   Delmas, Véronique ^a,b   Larue, Lionel ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b CNRS UMR146   (France)

^c CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BLAST CELL; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GLIA CELL; LETTER; MESENCHYME CELL; MOUSE; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VAGUS NERVE;

ANIMALS; INTESTINES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NEURAL CREST; NEURONS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; VAGUS NERVE;

MUS;

EID: 65549113888     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148X.2009.00546.x     Document Type: Letter

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