FGF dependent regulation of Zfhx1b gene expression promotes the formation of definitive neural stem cells in the mouse anterior neurectoderm

Neural Development

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Dang, Lan T H ^a   Tropepe, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FGF8 PROTEIN, MOUSE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN; WNT3 PROTEIN; ZFHX1B PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLONOGENIC ASSAY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; ECTODERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL TUBE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COLONY-FORMING UNITS ASSAY; ECTODERM; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MICE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURAL TUBE; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 77951870415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8104-5-13     Document Type: Article

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