Combinatorial activity of Six1-2-4 genes in cephalic neural crest cells controls craniofacial and brain development

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2149-2164

  Garcez, Ricardo C ^a,c   Le Douarin, Nicole M ^b   Creuzet, Sophie E ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Academie des Sciences   (France)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Electroporation; Head skeleton; Holoprosencephaly; Hoxa2; Neural crest; RNAi; Signaling

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIX1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; FACE HYPOPLASIA; FACE MALFORMATION; GENE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HOXA2 GENE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEURAL CREST CELL; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIX1 GENE; SIX2 GENE; SIX4 GENE; UPREGULATION;

BILATERIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE AND BONES; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; BRAIN; CHICK EMBRYO; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEAD; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; NEURAL CREST; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84901673658     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-013-1477-z     Document Type: Article

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