Notch signaling and proneural genes work together to control the neural building blocks for the initial scaffold in the hypothalamus

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 8, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Ware, Michelle ^a   Hamdi Rozé, Houda ^a   Dupé, Valérie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

ASCL1; Differentiation; Early axon scaffold; Forebrain; Hypothalamus patterning; Mammillotegmental tract; Tract of the postoptic commissure

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; NEUROGENIC DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; NEUROGENIN 1; NEUROGENIN 2; NEUROGENIN 3; NOTCH RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MASH1; TRANSGELIN;

BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRDU ASSAY; CELL ACTIVITY; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NOTCH SIGNALING PATHWAY; PRIMORDIUM; PROMOTER REGION; PRONEURAL GENE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UBIQUITINATION;

EID: 84914700207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2014.00140     Document Type: Review

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