Homeotic regulation of segment-specific differences in neuroblast numbers and proliferation in the Drosophila central nervous system

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 74, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 99-110

  Prokop, Andreas ^a   Bray, Sarah ^b   Harrison, Emma ^b   Technau, Gerhard M ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Downing Street CB2 3DY ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BrdU; Central nervous system; Drosophila; Homeotic genes; Proliferation; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; ABDOMEN; ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOMEOBOX; LARVA; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; STEM CELL; THORAX;

DROSOPHILA;

ANTENNAPEDIA PROTEIN; ANTP PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ULTRABITHORAX PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; ANTENNAPEDIA HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; BODY PATTERNING; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, REPORTER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LARVA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; STEM CELLS; THORAX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032102669     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00068-9     Document Type: Article

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