Zebrafish wnt4b expression in the floor plate is altered in sonic hedgehog and gli-2 mutants

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 91, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 409-413

  Liu, Aiping ^a   Majumdar, Arindam ^a   Schauerte, Heike E ^b   Haffter, Pascal ^b   Drummond, Iain A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell fate; Floor plate; gli 2; Neural tube; Signals; Sonic hedgehog

Indexed keywords

SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH;

CYCLOPS; DANIO RERIO; ERINACEIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033993482     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00308-1     Document Type: Article

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