Assembly of the Auditory Circuitry by a Hox Genetic Network in the Mouse Brainstem

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Di Bonito, Maria ^a,b,c   Narita, Yuichi ^d   Avallone, Bice ^e   Sequino, Luigi ^e   Mancuso, Marta ^a   Andolfi, Gennaro ^a   Franzè, Anna Maria ^f,g   Puelles, Luis ^h   Rijli, Filippo M ^d,i   Studer, Michèle ^a,b,c  

^a TELETHON INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND MEDICINE TIGEM   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^f INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

^g CEINGE BIOTECNOLOGIE AVANZATE   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HOX GENE; HOXA2 GENE; HOXB1 GENE; HOXB2 GENE; LATERAL LEMNISCUS; MOTOR OLIVOCOCHLEAR NEURON; MOTOR SYSTEM; MOUSE; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; POSTEROVENTRAL COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; RHOMBOMERE 4; RIG1 GENE; SENSORY SYSTEM; SOUND DETECTION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AXONS; BRAIN STEM; COCHLEA; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; MOTOR NEURONS; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84874778123     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003249     Document Type: Article

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