Twist1 Controls a Cell-Specification Switch Governing Cell Fate Decisions within the Cardiac Neural Crest

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Vincentz, Joshua W ^a   Firulli, Beth A ^a   Lin, Andrea ^a   Spicer, Douglas B ^b   Howard, Marthe J ^c   Firulli, Anthony B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PHOX2B PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX10; TWIST1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIAC NEURAL CREST; CARDIAC OUTFLOW TRACT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE REPRESSION; MESODERM; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PHOX2B GENE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; ECTODERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELA CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOCARDIUM; NEURAL CREST; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ORGANOGENESIS; SOXE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 84875973474     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003405     Document Type: Article

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