Sim1 is a novel regulator in the differentiation of mouse dorsal raphe serotonergic neurons

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Osterberg, Nadja ^a,b   Wiehle, Michael ^a   Oehlke, Oliver ^c   Heidrich, Stefanie ^a   Xu, Cheng ^d   Fan, Chen Ming ^d   Krieglstein, Kerstin ^b,c   Roussa, Eleni ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RGS4 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX8; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PET1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIM1; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DOPAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SEROTONIN; SIM1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL COUNT; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; MESENCEPHALON; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NERVE CELL; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAPHE NUCLEUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION;

MUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL LINEAGE; DOPAMINE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; MESENCEPHALON; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAPHE NUCLEI; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEROTONIN; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 79955593111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019239     Document Type: Article

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