Congenital hydrocephalus and abnormal subcommissural organ development in Sox3 transgenic mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Lee, Kristie ^a   Tan, Jacqueline ^b   Morris, Michael B ^c,d   Rizzoti, Karine ^e   Hughes, James ^a   Cheah, Pike See ^a,f   Felquer, Fernando ^a   Liu, Xuan ^a   Piltz, Sandra ^a   Lovell Badge, Robin ^e   Thomas, Paul Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX3; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SOX3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN AQUEDUCT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CELL ELONGATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONGENITAL HYDROCEPHALUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FIBCD1 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; LHX5 GENE; MALE; MOUSE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PENETRANCE; PRIMORDIUM; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SOX14 GENE; SUBCOMMISSURAL ORGAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX3 GENE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; C57BL MOUSE; CBA MOUSE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYDROCEPHALUS; METABOLISM; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS; SYLVIA;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENOTYPE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; SOXB1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; SUBCOMMISSURAL ORGAN;

EID: 84856281464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029041     Document Type: Article

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