Lhx1 Controls Terminal Differentiation and Circadian Function of the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus

Cell Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 609-622

  Bedont, Joseph L ^a   LeGates, Tara A ^b   Slat, Emily A ^c   Byerly, Mardi S ^a   Wang, Hong ^a   Hu, Jianfei ^a   Rupp, Alan C ^b   Qian, Jiang ^a   Wong, G William ^a   Herzog, Erik D ^c   Hattar, Samer ^a,b   Blackshaw, Seth ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIM HOMEODOMAIN TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; NEUROPEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LHX1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; LIM HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NEUROPEPTIDE GRP; NEUROPEPTIDE PROK2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL COUNTING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLOCK GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUPIL REFLEX; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; C57BL MOUSE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; DEFICIENCY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; DOWN REGULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; LIM-HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEUROPEPTIDES; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84899988978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.03.060     Document Type: Article

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