Shifts in the vascular endothelial growth factor isoforms result in transcriptome changes correlated with early neural stem cell proliferation and differentiation in mouse forebrain

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 63-81

  Cain, Jacob T ^a   Berosik, Matthew A ^a   Snyder, Stephanie D ^a   Crawford, Natalie F ^a   Nour, Shirin I ^a   Schaubhut, Geoffrey J ^a,b   Darland, Diane C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Forebrain; Neural development; Neurogenesis; Pax6; Tbr2; VEGF

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; TRANSCRIPTOME; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL EXPANSION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOME; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENOTYPE; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; STEM CELL; TELENCEPHALON;

FOREBRAIN; NEURAL DEVELOPMENT; NEUROGENESIS; PAX6; TBR2; VEGF;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MITOSIS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; PREGNANCY; PROSENCEPHALON; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTOME; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84889670296     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 10974695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.22130     Document Type: Article

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