Postmitotic regulation of sensory area patterning in the mammalian neocortex by Lhx2

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 6736-6741

  Zembrzycki, Andreas ^a   Perez Garcia, Carlos G ^a   Wang, Chia Fang ^b   Chou, Shen Ju ^b   O'Leary, Dennis D M ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CELLULAR AND ORGANISMIC BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CoupTF1; Epigenetic mechanisms; MeCP2; Neuronal fate; Terminal selector genes

Indexed keywords

LHX2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LHX2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; LIM HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MAMMAL; MITOSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SENSORY CORTEX; STEM CELL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; DEFICIENCY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; LIM-HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOSIS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEOCORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84930226628     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1424440112     Document Type: Article

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