Oligodendrocyte progenitor cell numbers and migration are regulated by the zebrafish orthologs of the NF1 tumor suppressor gene

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 4643-4653

  Lee, Jeong Soo ^a   Padmanabhan, Arun ^b   Shin, Jimann ^a   Zhu, Shizhen ^a   Guo, Feng ^a   Kanki, John P ^a   Epstein, Jonathan A ^b   Thomas Look, A ^a,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NEUROFIBROMIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CELL COUNT; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE MUTATION; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; STEM CELL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; APOPTOSIS; CELL COUNT; CELL MOVEMENT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENES, NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; NEURONS; OLIGODENDROGLIA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

EID: 78149260091     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddq395     Document Type: Article

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