β-thymosin is required for axonal tract formation in developing zebrafish brain

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1365-1374

  Roth, Lukas W A ^a   Bormann, Peter ^a   Bonnet, Annick ^a   Reinhard, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

thymosin; Actin; Antisense injections; Muscle differentiation; Neuronal growth; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; BUFFER; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; POLYPEPTIDE; THYMOSIN;

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GLIA; JAW; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOMITE; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AXONS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLES; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; RNA; RNA, ANTISENSE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THYMOSIN; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

EID: 0032941416     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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