The activity of Neurogenin1 is controlled by local cues in the zebrafish embryo

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 4557-4569

  Blader, Patrick ^a   Fischer, Nadine ^a   Gradwohl, Gerard ^a   Guillemot, François ^a   Strähle, Uwe ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Neurogenin; Proneural genes; Sonic hedgehog; Vertebrate neurogenesis; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; MOTONEURON; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURONS; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ERINACEIDAE; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030680997     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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