Loss of ATF2 function leads to cranial motoneuron degeneration during embryonic mouse development

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Ackermann, Julien ^a,b   Ashton, Garry ^a   Lyons, Steve ^a   James, Dominic ^a   Hornung, Jean Pierre ^b   Jones, Nic ^a   Breitwieser, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Institut de Biologie Cellulaire et de Morphologie   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; CASPASE; LIPID; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; NEUROFILAMENT H PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT M PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN C JUN; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ATF2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; DUAL SPECIFICITY PHOSPHATASE;

ABDUCENS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CELL DEATH; CELL LOSS; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FACIAL NERVE NUCLEUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HYPOGLOSSAL NUCLEUS; LIPID STORAGE; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INNERVATION; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SKULL;

MAMMALIA;

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN STEM; DUAL-SPECIFICITY PHOSPHATASES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MICE; MOTOR NEURONS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; SKULL;

EID: 79955427294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019090     Document Type: Article

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