Neurophysiological defects and neuronal gene deregulation in drosophila mir-124 mutants

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Sun, Kailiang ^a,b   Westholm, Jakub Orzechowski ^a   Tsurudome, Kazuya ^c   Hagen, Joshua W ^a   Lu, Yubing ^d   Kohwi, Minoree ^e   Betel, Doron ^f   Gao, Fen Biao ^d   Haghighi, A Pejmun ^c   Doe, Chris Q ^e   Lai, Eric C ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^f WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 124; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DROSOPHILA; EPIDERMIS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LARVA; LIFESPAN; LOCOMOTION; MUTANT; NERVE CELL; NEUROBLAST; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; TRANSGENE; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY RECEPTOR;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; LOCOMOTION; MICRORNAS; MUTATION; NEUROGENESIS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PHENOTYPE; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84859194058     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002515     Document Type: Article

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