Journal
GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS
Volume 4, Issue 6, Pages 749-754Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.modgep.2004.03.007
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Ezrin; Ezrin radixin moesin family; neurofibromatosis 2; choroidal plexus; neurogenesis; cerebellar plate; mouse
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- Telethon [GGP030198] Funding Source: Medline
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Ezrin is a member of the Ezrin, Radixin, Moesin (ERM) proteins family that are proposed to act as linkers between the cytoskeleton and plasma membrane. Ezrin regulates cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions playing a role in the regulation of cellular adhesion, movement and morphology in epithelia. Alterations in the expression of Ezrin and other members of ERM family have also been observed in brain tumours. Here we report the expression pattern of Ezrin during mouse neural development, from early stages to postnatal stages. In young and middle gestation embryos, Ezrin is expressed in the roof plate of the neural tube, in the presumptive domain of the choroidal plexus, and in some precise domains of ventricular epithelium. These domains are distributed in basal and alar neuroepithelial regions, some of them in relation to the expression of cadherins. At later gestation and postnatal stages, Ezrin expression is maintained on the mature choroidal plexus and is weakly detected in the proliferative regions of the mature brain. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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