Role of Xrx1 in Xenopus eye and anterior brain development

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2451-2460

  Andreazzoli, Massimiliano ^a,c   Gestri, Gaia ^a   Angeloni, Debora ^b,d   Menna, Elisabetta ^a   Barsacchi, Giuseppina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior neural plate patterning; engrailed repressor; Eye; Forebrain; Otx2; Pax6; Rx1; Six3; Xenopus laevis; Xrx1

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROECTODERM; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RHOMBENCEPHALON; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GLYCOPROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICROINJECTIONS; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0033034281     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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