Nkx6 genes pattern the frog neural plate and Nkx6.1 is necessary for motoneuron axon projection

Developmental Biology

Volumn 349, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 378-386

  Dichmann, Darwin S ^a   Harland, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon guidance; Differentiation; Interneuron; Motility; Motor neuron; Neural plate; Nkx6; Paralysis; Patterning; Xenopus laevis; Xenopus tropicalis

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX6.1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX6.2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FROG; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; MOTONEURON; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; TADPOLE; XENOPUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

ANURA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 78650818275     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2010.10.030     Document Type: Article

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