MEK Is a Key Regulator of Gliogenesis in the Developing Brain

Neuron

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1035-1050

  Li, Xiaoyan ^a   Newbern, Jason M ^a   Wu, Yaohong ^a   Morgan Smith, Meghan ^a   Zhong, Jian ^b   Charron, Jean ^c   Snider, William D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETV5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EMBRYO; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GROWTH REGULATION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1 GENE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE GENE; MOUSE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETV5 GENE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 1; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MAP KINASE KINASE 1; MAP KINASE KINASE 2; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84866516735     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.08.031     Document Type: Article

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