The Onecut Transcription Factor HNF-6 Regulates in Motor Neurons the Formation of the Neuromuscular Junctions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Audouard, Emilie ^a   Schakman, Olivier ^a   René, Frédérique ^b   Huettl, Rosa Eva ^c   Huber, Andrea B ^c   Loeffler, Jean Philippe ^b   Gailly, Philippe ^a   Clotman, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 6; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 2; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; HYPOTROPHY; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE HYPOTROPHY; MYOTUBE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SYNAPSE VESICLE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA PRIMERS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 6; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LOCOMOTION; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOTOR NEURONS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84870842753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050509     Document Type: Article

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