Sequential requirement of Sox4 and Sox11 during development of the sympathetic nervous system

Development

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 775-784

  Potzner, Michaela R ^a   Tsarovina, Konstantina ^b   Binder, Ellen ^b   Penzo Méndez, Alfredo ^c   Lefebvre, Veronique ^c   Rohrer, Hermann ^b   Wegner, Michael ^a   Sock, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Chicken; Conditional mutagenesis; Mouse; Noradrenergic differentiation; Proliferation; Sympathoadrenal lineage

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX11; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX4; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSAUTONOMIA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYPOPLASIA; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEUROGENESIS; NOREPINEPHRINE; SOXC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 76449096961     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.042101     Document Type: Article

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