WNK Signaling Is Involved in Neural Development via Lhx8/Awh Expression

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Sato, Atsushi ^a   Shibuya, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE WNK1; PROTEIN KINASE WNK4;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LHX8 GENE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN KINASE WNK1 GENE; PROTEIN KINASE WNK4 GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIM-HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEUROGENESIS; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WING;

EID: 84873883019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055301     Document Type: Article

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