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Rax regulates hypothalamic tanycyte differentiation and barrier function in mice.
The Journal of comparative neurology - 1 Mar 2014
Miranda-Angulo Ana L, Byerly Mardi S, Mesa Janny, Wang Hong, Blackshaw Seth
Abstract excerpt
The wall of the ventral third ventricle is composed of two distinct cell populations: tanycytes and ependymal cells. Tanycytes regulate many aspects of hypothalamic physiology, but little is known about the transcriptional network that regulates their development and function. We observed that the retina and anterior neural fold homeobox transcription factor (Rax) is selectively expressed in hypothalamic...
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