Lmo4 establishes rostral motor cortex projection neuron subtype diversity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 6321-6332

  Cederquist, Gustav Y ^a,b   Azim, Eiman ^a,c   Shnider, Sara J ^a   Padmanabhan, Hari ^a   Macklis, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; LIM ONLY 4; LIM PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONNECTOME; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIM DOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84875974151     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5140-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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