ATRX is required for maintenance of the neuroprogenitor cell pool in the embryonic mouse brain

Biology Open

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1158-1163

  Ritchie, Kieran ^a   Watson, L Ashley ^a   Davidson, Benjamin ^a   Jiang, Yan ^a   Bérubé, Nathalie G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

ATRX; Cell division; Chromatin; Cortical lamination; Neurodevelopment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979296632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20466390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/bio.20148730     Document Type: Article

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