The Notch signaling pathway is required to specify muscle progenitor cells in Drosophila

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 137-145

  Giebel, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Gal4 system; Myogenesis; Neurogenic genes; Proneural genes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOBLAST; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032814555     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00128-8     Document Type: Article

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