Patterning and compartment formation in the diencephalon

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2012, Pages

  Chatterjee, Mallika ^a   Li, James Y H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Compartment boundary; Fate mapping; Gbx2; Organizer; Prosomere; Shh; Thalamus; ZLI

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450 1B1; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 19; NEUROGENIN 1; NEUROGENIN 2; NOTCH RECEPTOR; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR RELATED FACTOR 1; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MASH1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIX3; WNT3 PROTEIN; WNT3A PROTEIN;

CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL MOTION; CEREBELLUM; DIENCEPHALON; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME REPRESSION; EPITHALAMUS; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; HABENULA; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MESENCEPHALON; NEOCORTEX; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL TUBE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROMERE; NONHUMAN; PRETECTUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBTHALAMUS; THALAMUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ZONA LIMITANS INTRATHALAMICA;

EID: 84862235902     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00066     Document Type: Review

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