Conserved and novel roles for the Gsh2 transcription factor in primary neurogenesis

Development

Volumn 137, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 2623-2631

  Winterbottom, Emily F ^a   Illes, Jean C ^a   Faas, Laura ^a   Isaacs, Harry V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gsh1; Gsh2; Gsx; Interneurons; Msx; Neurogenesis; Nkx; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GSH2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GSX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MSX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL TUBE; NEUROECTODERM; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; NEURAL PLATE; NEUROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

BILATERIA; MAMMALIA; PROTOSTOMIA;

EID: 77955732889     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.047159     Document Type: Article

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