Cecr2 mutations causing exencephaly trigger misregulation of mesenchymal/ectodermal transcription factors

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 619-625

  Fairbridge, Nicholas A ^a   Dawe, Christine E ^a   Niri, Farshad H ^a   Kooistra, Megan K ^a   King Jones, Kirst ^a   McDermid, Heather E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cecr2; Chromatin remodeling; Exencephaly; Mesenchyme; Microarray; Neural tube defects; qRT PCR; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ALX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CART1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DLX5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EYA1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIX1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANENCEPHALUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CERC2 GENE; DOWN REGULATION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; ENCEPHALOCELE; EXENCEPHALY; FACE MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; MESENCHYME; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOMITE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; DOWN-REGULATION; ECTODERM; ENCEPHALOCELE; FACIAL BONES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTATION; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PREGNANCY; PROSENCEPHALON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 77955618056     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20695     Document Type: Article

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