Six3 cooperates with hedgehog signaling to specify ventral telencephalon by promoting early expression of foxg1a and repressing Wnt signaling

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 139, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 2614-2624

  Carlin, Dan ^a,b   Sepich, Diane ^a,b   Grover, Vandana K ^c   Cooper, Michael K ^c   Solnica Krezel, Lilianna ^a,b   Inbal, Adi ^a,d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Six3; Telencephalon; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN P53; PROTEIN PATCHED 2; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXG1A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.1B; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIX3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT8B PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELENCEPHALON; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EYE PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LIM-HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELENCEPHALON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; ERINACEIDAE; MUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84863111060     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.076018     Document Type: Article

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