Early appearance of pancreatic hormone-expressing cells in the zebrafish embryo

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 87, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 217-221

  Argenton, Francesco ^a   Zecchin, Elisabetta ^a   Bortolussi, Marino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

cDNA; Confocal microscopy; Danio rerio; Development; Differentiation; Dorsal endoderm; Embryo; Floor plate; Glucagon; Immunohistochemistry; In situ hybridization; Insulin; Islet; Midline; Osteichthyes; Pancreas; Pdx1; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUCAGON; INSULIN; MESSENGER RNA; PANCREAS HORMONE; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MODEL; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANOGENESIS; PANCREAS CELL; PANCREAS ISLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCAGON; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSULIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PANCREAS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SOMATOSTATIN; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO; OSTEICHTHYES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032857542     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00151-3     Document Type: Article

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