Engrailed is required in maturing serotonin neurons to regulate the cytoarchitecture and survival of the dorsal raphe nucleus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 7832-7842

  Fox, Stephanie R ^a   Deneris, Evan S ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; PROTEIN ENGRAILED; PROTEIN ENGRAILED 1; PROTEIN ENGRAILED 2; SEROTONIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOSIS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; RAPHE NUCLEI; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SEROTONIN;

EID: 84861870862     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5829-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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