An emerging role for prdm family genes in dorsoventral patterning of the vertebrate nervous system

Neural Development

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Zannino, Denise A ^a   Sagerström, Charles G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsoventral patterning; Neural progenitor; Neural tube; Prdm gene family; Transcription

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; HISTONE; NERVE PROTEIN;

DORSOVENTRAL PATTERNING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL TUBE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRDM GENE FAMILY; PRDM12B GENE; PRDM13 GENE; PRDM14 GENE; PRDM8 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TELENCEPHALON; ANIMAL; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84945130185     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13064-015-0052-8     Document Type: Review

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