Anteroposterior patterning in the zebrafish, Danio rerio: An explant assay reveals inductive and suppressive cell interactions

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1873-1883

  Sagerström, Charles G ^a   Grinblat, Yevgenya ^a   Sive, Hazel ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anteroposterior axis; Explants; Neural induction; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CELL COUNT; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLASTOCYST; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

EID: 0030013575     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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