The master negative regulator REST/NRSF controls adult neurogenesis by restraining the neurogenic program in quiescent stem cells

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 26, 2011, Pages 9772-9786

  Gao, Zhengliang ^a   Ure, Kerstin ^a   Ding, Peiguo ^a   Nashaat, Mostafa ^a   Yuan, Laura ^a   Ma, Jing ^a   Hammer, Robert E ^b   Hsieh, Jenny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEURON RESTRICTIVE SILENCER FACTOR; REPRESSOR ELEMENT 1 SILENCING TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIN3A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL GRANULE; CELL LOSS; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROD1 GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 79960007644     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1604-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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