Spatiotemporal expression patterns of Pax6 in the brain of embryonic, newborn, and adult mice

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 218, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 353-372

  Duan, Deyi ^a   Fu, Yuhong ^a   Paxinos, George ^a,b   Watson, Charles ^a,c  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adult brain; Embryonic brain; Mouse; NeuN; Neural development; Pax6; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GERMINAL CENTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MESENCEPHALON RETICULAR FORMATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; EYE PROTEINS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

MUS;

EID: 84878823154     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-012-0397-2     Document Type: Article

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