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Dual role for Islet-1 in promoting striatonigral and repressing striatopallidal genetic programs to specify striatonigral cell identity.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 7 Jan 2014
Lu Kuan-Ming, Evans Sylvia M, Hirano Shinji, Liu Fu-Chin
Abstract excerpt
Striatal projection neurons comprise two populations of striatonigral and striatopallidal neurons. These two neuronal populations play distinct roles in controlling movement-related functions in the basal ganglia circuits. An important issue is how striatal progenitors are developmentally specified into these two distinct neuronal populations. In the present study, we characterized the function of Islet-1 (Isl1),...
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