Identification of genomic regions regulating Pax6 expression in embryonic forebrain using YAC reporter transgenic mouse lines

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Mi, Da ^a   Huang, Yu Ting ^a   Kleinjan, Dirk A ^b   Mason, John O ^a   Price, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; LATERAL CORTICAL STREAM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SUBPALLIUM; SUBTHALAMUS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROSENCEPHALON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84892398217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080208     Document Type: Article

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