Genetic control of epithelial tube fusion during Drosophila tracheal development

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3531-3536

  Samakovlis, Christos ^a,b   Manning, Gerard ^a   Steneberg, Par ^b   Hacohen, Nir ^a   Cantera, Rafael ^c   Krasnow, Mark A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Branching morphogenesis; Drosophila; Epithelial morphogenesis; Escargot; Trachea; Tube fusion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CELL JUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; TRACHEA;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; MORPHOGENESIS; TRACHEA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

ANIMALIA; HELIX POMATIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0029855177     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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