Transcriptional control of the terminal fate of monoaminergic neurons

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue , 2011, Pages 153-184

  Flames, Nuria ^a,b,c   Hobert, Oliver ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Gene regulation; Noradrenaline; Serotonin; Terminal differentiation; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN; OCTOPAMINE; TYRAMINE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; CATECHOLAMINERGIC SYSTEM; CELL FATE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MESENCEPHALON; MONOAMINE NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; OLFACTORY BULB; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURONS;

EID: 79959906105     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: 15454126     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-061010-113824     Document Type: Article

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