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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Stéphane LE CROM
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-9620 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Pla Patrick P Hirsch Marie-Rose MR Le Crom Stéphane S Reiprich Simone S Harley Vincent R VR Goridis Christo C
Neural development 20080619
<h4>Background</h4>Branchiomotor neurons comprise an important class of cranial motor neurons that innervate the branchial-arch-derived muscles of the face, jaw and neck. They arise in the ventralmost progenitor domain of the rhombencephalon characterized by expression of the homeodomain transcription factors Nkx2.2 and Phox2b. Phox2b in particular plays a key role in the specification of branchiomotor neurons. In its absence, generic neuronal differentiation is defective in the progenitor domai ...[more]