SoxC transcription factors are required for neuronal differentiation in adult hippocampal neurogenesis

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3067-3080

  Mu, Lifang ^a   Berti, Lucia ^a   Masserdotti, Giacomo ^a,c   Covic, Marcela ^a   Michaelidis, Theologos M ^a,d   Doberauer, Kathrin ^a   Merz, Katharina ^a   Rehfeld, Frederick ^a   Haslinger, Anja ^a   Wegner, Michael ^b   Sock, Elisabeth ^b   Lefebvre, Veronique ^e   Couillard Despres, Sebastien ^f   Aigner, Ludwig ^f   Berninger, Benedikt ^a,c   Chichung Lie, D ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^e LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX11; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MACROGLIA; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOMATIC CELL;

ADULT STEM CELLS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; HEK293 CELLS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; SOXC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84857551993     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4679-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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