Zebrafish Dmrta2 regulates neurogenesis in the telencephalon

Genes to Cells

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1097-1109

  Yoshizawa, Akio ^a,b   Nakahara, Yoshinari ^a   Izawa, Toshiaki ^b   Ishitani, Tohru ^b,c   Tsutsumi, Makiko ^b,d   Kuroiwa, Atsushi ^b   Itoh, Motoyuki ^b   Kikuchi, Yutaka ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN DMRTA2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIENCEPHALON; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMX3 GENE; EPISTASIS; FOXG1 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; HA2 GENE; HER6 GENE; MUTANT; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROD GENE; NEUROGENIN1 GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SOMITE; TELENCEPHALON; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGENESIS; TELENCEPHALON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DANIO RERIO;

EID: 80054880587     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: 13652443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2011.01555.x     Document Type: Article

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