A tale of tailless

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-13

  Gui, Hongxing ^a   Li, Mei Ling ^a   Tsai, Chih Cheng ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrophin; Differentiation; Histone deacetylase; Lysine specific histone demethylase 1; Neural stem cell; Nuclear receptor; Proliferation; PTEN; Tailless; Tlx

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; ORPHAN NUCLEAR RECEPTOR; SECRETED FRIZZLED RELATED PROTEIN 2; TAILLESS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURAL STEM CELLS; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79953651942     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000321585     Document Type: Review

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