The engrailed homeobox genes are required in multiple cell lineages to coordinate sequential formation of fissures and growth of the cerebellum

Developmental Biology

Volumn 367, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-39

  Orvis, Grant D ^a   Hartzell, Andrea L ^a   Smith, Jenessa B ^a   Barraza, Luis Humberto ^a   Wilson, Sandra L ^a   Szulc, Kamila U ^b   Turnbull, Daniel H ^b   Joyner, Alexandra L ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain development; Conditional knockouts; CRE; En1 and En2; Foliation; Patterning; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CELL COUNT; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TYPE; CEREBELLUM FISSURE FORMATION; CEREBELLUM FOLIATION; CEREBELLUM GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENGRAILED 1 GENE; ENGRAILED 2 GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GROWTH REGULATION; HOMEOBOX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

EID: 84861662792     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2012.04.018     Document Type: Article

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