Transcriptional regulation of their survival: The engrailed homeobox genes

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 651, Issue , 2009, Pages 66-72

  Simon, Horst H ^a   Alavian, Kambiz N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGRAILED PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DOPAMINE; EN1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ARTICLE; BILATERIA; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ENGRAILED GENE; GENE FUNCTION; HOMEOBOX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MESENCEPHALON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; DOPAMINE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 70349785264     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0322-8_6     Document Type: Article

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