Wnt signaling and its downstream target N-myc regulate basal progenitors in the developing neocortex

Development

Volumn 137, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1035-1044

  Kuwahara, Atsushi ^a,e   Hirabayashi, Yusuke ^a   Knoepfler, Paul S ^b,f   Taketo, Makoto M ^c   Sakai, Juro ^d   Kodama, Tatsuhiko ^d   Gotoh, Yukiko ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e SUMITOMO CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal progenitors; Mouse; N myc; Neocortical development; Neural precursor cells; The wnt catenin pathway

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; WNT PROTEIN; MYC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE DELETION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C MYB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE DELETION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; NEOCORTEX; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 77950512319     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.046417     Document Type: Article

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