Activity-dependent expression of Lmx1b regulates specification of serotonergic neurons modulating swimming behavior

Neuron

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 321-334

  Demarque, Michaël ^a,b,c   Spitzer, Nicholas C ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California San Diego   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellbio; Devbio; Sysneuro

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LMX1B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL COUNT; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; LARVAL STAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SWIMMING; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CALCIUM; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; RAPHE NUCLEI; RNA, MESSENGER; SEROTONIN; SODIUM CHANNELS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWIMMING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 77955479581     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.06.006     Document Type: Article

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