Article
The mouse Dreher gene Lmx1a controls formation of the roof plate in the vertebrate CNS.
Nature - 17 Feb 2000
Millonig J H, Millen K J, Hatten M E
Abstract excerpt
In the vertebrate central nervous system (CNS), a cascade of signals that originates in the ectoderm adjacent to the neural tube is propagated by the roof plate to dorsalize the neural tube. Here we report that the phenotype of the spontaneous neurological mutant mouse dreher (dr) results from a failure of the roof plate to develop. Dorsalization of the neural tube is consequently affected: dorsal interneurons in...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Central Nervous System
- Chromosome Mapping
- Cloning, Molecular
- Crosses, Genetic
- Homeodomain Proteins
- LIM-Homeodomain Proteins
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C3H
