Prospero and Pax2 combinatorially control neural cell fate decisions by modulating Ras- and Notch-dependent signaling

Neural Development

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Charlton Perkins, Mark ^a,b   Whitaker, S Leigh ^a   Fei, Yueyang ^a   Xie, Baotong ^a   Li Kroeger, David ^a,b   Gebelein, Brian ^a,b   Cook, Tiffany ^a,b  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; NOTCH PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; NOTCH RECEPTOR; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROS PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; RAS PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INSECT; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RETINA; RETINA CONE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; PUPA; RAS PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79955506997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8104-6-20     Document Type: Article

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