Zebrafish tbx-c functions during formation of midline structures

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2703-2713

  Dheen, Thameem ^a   Sleptsova Friedrich, Inna ^a   Xu, Yanfei ^a   Clark, Matthew ^b   Lehrach, Hans ^b   Gong, Zhiyuan ^a   Korzh, Vladimir ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal cap; Chordoneural hinge; Dominant negative; flh; islet1; Motor neuron; myoD; Notochord; ntl; Overexpression; shh; Somite; spt; T box gene; tbx6

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; MOTONEURON; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SOMITE; TAIL; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYOLOGY; FETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032813631     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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