EphA4 regulates the balance between self-renewal and differentiation of radial glial cells and intermediate neuronal precursors in cooperation with FGF signaling

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Chen, Qingfa ^a   Arai, Daiki ^a   Kawakami, Kazuki ^a   Sawada, Takahiro ^a   Jing, Xuefeng ^a   Miyajima, Masayasu ^a   Hirai, Syu Ichi ^a   Sakaguchi, Kazushige ^a   Furushima, Kenryo ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN RECEPTOR A4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL RENEWAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EPHA4 GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMEDIATE NEURONAL PRECURSOR CELL; MACROGLIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; CELL CULTURE; EMBRYOLOGY; NERVE REGENERATION; PHYSIOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELLS, CULTURED; EPENDYMOGLIAL CELLS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; MICE; NERVE REGENERATION; RECEPTOR, EPHA4; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84929340196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126942     Document Type: Article

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