COE Loss-of-Function Analysis Reveals a Genetic Program Underlying Maintenance and Regeneration of the Nervous System in Planarians

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Cowles, Martis W ^a   Omuro, Kerilyn C ^a   Stanley, Brianna N ^a   Quintanilla, Carlo G ^a   Zayas, Ricardo M ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLIER OLFACTORY 1 EARLY B CELL FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL ALPHA SUBUNIT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM REGENERATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REGENERATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TURBELLARIA; ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIMNOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FRESHWATER BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; NEURONS; PLANARIANS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; REGENERATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84908323148     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004746     Document Type: Article

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