Mouse thalamic differentiation: Gli-dependent pattern and Gli-independent prepattern

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEB, 2012, Pages

  Haddad Tóvolli, Roberta ^a   Heide, Michael ^a   Zhou, Xunlei ^a   Blaess, Sandra ^b   Alvarez Bolado, Gonzalo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Double mutant; Gbx2; Gli2; Gli3; Mouse; Sonic hedgehog; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

GBX2 PROTEIN; LHX2 PROTEIN; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMUS; THALAMUS DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 84862170186     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00027     Document Type: Article

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