Defining midbrain dopaminergic neuron diversity by single-cell gene expression profiling

Cell Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 930-943

  Poulin, Jean Francois ^a   Zou, Jian ^a   Drouin Ouellet, Janelle ^b   Kim, Kwang Youn A ^a   Cicchetti, Francesca ^c   Awatramani, Rajeshwar B ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; ALDH1A1; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROTRANSMITTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE; 1,2,3,6 TETRAHYDRO 1 METHYL 4 PHENYLPYRIDINE;

ADULT; ALDH1A1 GENE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; MPTP-INDUCED PARKINSONISM; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETRORUBRAL AREA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS COMPACTA; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; VIP GENE; AGING; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; METABOLISM; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOLOGY;

MAMMALIA;

1-METHYL-4-PHENYL-1,2,3,6-TETRAHYDROPYRIDINE; AGING; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; MESENCEPHALON; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 84908436879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.10.008     Document Type: Article

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