SOX9 controls epithelial branching by activating RET effector genes during kidney development

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1143-1153

  Reginensi, Antoine ^a,b   Clarkson, Michael ^a,b   Neirijnck, Yasmine ^a,b   Lu, Benson ^c   Ohyama, Takahiro ^d   Groves, Andrew K ^e   Sock, Elisabeth ^f   Wegner, Michael ^f   Costantini, Frank ^c   Chaboissier, Marie Christine ^a,b   Schedl, Andreas ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^d HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX8; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CAMPOMELIC DYSPLASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; KIDNEY AGENESIS; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY HYPOPLASIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; URETER;

ANIMALS; CAMPOMELIC DYSPLASIA; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; ORGANOGENESIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOX9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SOXE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79952027353     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddq558     Document Type: Article

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