Global Control of Motor Neuron Topography Mediated by the Repressive Actions of a Single Hox Gene

Neuron

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 781-796

  Jung, Heekyung ^a   Lacombe, Julie ^a   Mazzoni, Esteban O ^b   Liem, Karel F ^c   Grinstein, Jonathan ^a   Mahony, Shaun ^d   Mukhopadhyay, Debnath ^e   Gifford, David K ^d   Young, Richard A ^e   Anderson, Kathryn V ^c   Wichterle, Hynek ^b   Dasen, Jeremy S ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^e WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA9; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXC9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXP1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOXC9 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RALDH2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SMAD1 PROTEIN; SMAD1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; ANIMAL; BACK; CHICK EMBRYO; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INNERVATION; LIMB; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NERVE FIBER; NEWBORN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPINAL CORD; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROPORATION; EXTREMITIES; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTATION; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SACROCOCCYGEAL REGION; SMAD1 PROTEIN; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 77956334497     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.08.008     Document Type: Article

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