Apoptosis of limb innervating motor neurons and erosion of motor pool identity upon lineage specific Dicer inactivation

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Jun An ^a,b   Wichterle, Hynek ^a,c  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c P and S 14 401G ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Dicer; MicroRNA; Motor neuron subtype; Motor neurons; Motor pool; Oligodendrocyte; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; DICER; MICRORNA; OLIGODENDROCYTE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; INNERVATION; LIMB; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION;

EID: 84862169235     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00069     Document Type: Article

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