Sexually dimorphic shaping of interneuron dendrites involves the hunchback transcription factor

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 5454-5459

  Goto, Junpei ^a   Mikawa, Yoshitaka ^a   Koganezawa, Masayuki ^a   Ito, Hiroki ^a   Yamamoto, Daisuke ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HUNCHBACK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FRUITLESS GENE; GANGLION; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUNCHBACK GENE; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBESOPHAGEAL GANGLION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BRAIN; COMPOUND EYE, ARTHROPOD; DENDRITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTERNEURONS; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79955714046     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4861-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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