A role for notochord in axial vascular development revealed by analysis of phenotype and the expression of VEGR-2 in zebrafish flh and ntl mutant embryos

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-27

  Sumoy, Lauro ^a   Bennett Keasey, J ^a   Dittman, Tyler D ^a   Kimelman, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

flh; Notochord; ntl; Vasculogenesis; VEGR 2; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE INDUCTION; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NOTOCHORD; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STEM CELLS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 0030953753     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(97)00671-0     Document Type: Article

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