Zac1 plays a key role in the development of specific neuronal subsets in the mouse cerebellum

Neural Development

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Chung, Seung Hyuk ^a   Marzban, Hassan ^a   Aldinger, Kimberly ^b   Dixit, Rajiv ^a   Millen, Kathleen ^b   Schuurmans, Carol ^a   Hawkes, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; NEUROGRANIN; PLAGL1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TBR1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CEREBELLUM; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL COUNT; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBELLUM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROGRANIN; NEURONS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79955953365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8104-6-25     Document Type: Article

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