The small GTpase RhoA is required to maintain spinal cord neuroepithelium organization and the neural stem cell pool

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 5120-5130

  Herzog, Dominik ^a,e   Loetscher, Pirmin ^a   van Hengel, Jolanda ^b,c   Knüsel, Sebastian ^a   Brakebusch, Cord ^d   Taylor, Verdon ^e,f   Suter, Ueli ^a   Relvas, João B ^a,g  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CELL PROTEIN; MAMMALIAN DIAPHANOUS RELATED FORMIN 1; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL DAMAGE; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL POLARITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE ABLATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC PROCEDURES; MALE; MICROTUBULE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79955713787     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4807-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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