Specification of select hypothalamic circuits and innate behaviors by the embryonic patterning gene Dbx1

Neuron

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 403-416

  Sokolowski, Katie ^a   Esumi, Shigeyuki ^a,b   Hirata, Tsutomu ^a,f   Kamal, Yasman ^a   Tran, Tuyen ^a   Lam, Andrew ^a   Oboti, Livio ^a   Brighthaupt, Sherri Chanelle ^a   Zaghlula, Manar ^a   Martinez, Jennifer ^a   Ghimbovschi, Svetlana ^a   Knoblach, Susan ^a   Pierani, Alessandra ^c   Tamamaki, Nobuaki ^b   Shah, Nirao M ^d   Jones, Kevin S ^a,e   Corbin, Joshua G ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN DBX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DBX1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NEUROPEPTIDE; OREXIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DBX1 GENE; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INNATE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZONA INCERTA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CYTOLOGY; DRIVE; EMBRYOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY PATTERNING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSTINCT; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; OREXINS;

EID: 84929264008     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.03.022     Document Type: Article

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