Spatially coordinated dynamic gene transcription in living pituitary tissue

eLife

Volumn 5, Issue FEBRUARY2016, 2016, Pages

  Featherstone, Karen ^a   Hey, Kirsty ^b   Momiji, Hiroshi ^b   McNamara, Anne V ^a   Patist, Amanda L ^a   Woodburn, Joanna ^a   Spiller, David G ^a   Christian, Helen C ^c   McNeilly, Alan S ^d   Mullins, John J ^e   Finkenstadt, Barbel F ^b   Rand, David A ^b   White, Michael R H ^a   Davis, Julian R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; PROLACTIN; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LUMINESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; FISCHER 344 RAT; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPORTER GENE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; OPTICAL IMAGING; PITUITARY GLAND; RATS, INBRED F344; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84961279083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.08494     Document Type: Article

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