Agenesis of the corpus callosum due to defective glial wedge formation in Lhx2 mutant mice

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2707-2718

  Chinn, Gregory A ^a,b   Hirokawa, Karla E ^a,b   Chuang, Tony M ^b   Urbina, Cecilia ^b   Patel, Fenil ^a   Fong, Jeanette ^a   Funatsu, Nobuo ^b   Monuki, Edwin S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agenesis of the corpus callosum; Cre lox; Glial wedge; Lhx2; Mouse

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; EDOXUDINE; KI 67 ANTIGEN; LHX2 PROTEIN; NESTIN; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EMX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BCL11B PROTEIN, MOUSE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EMPTY SPIRACLES HOMEOBOX PROTEINS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GT(ROSA)26SOR NON-CODING RNA, MOUSE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LHX2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; LIM HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; NES PROTEIN, MOUSE; NEUROD6 PROTEIN, MOUSE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TBR1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; AXON; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; EMBRYO; EPENDYMA; FEMALE; GENE INACTIVATION; GLIA; GLIAL WEDGE; HIPPOCAMPAL COMMISSURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROSTROMEDIAL CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; TUNEL ASSAY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AGENESIS OF CORPUS CALLOSUM; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; LIM-HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; NEOCORTEX; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NESTIN; NEUROGLIA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84983260398     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu067     Document Type: Article

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