Functional retinoid receptors in budding ascidians

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-8

  Kamimura, Mika ^a,b   Fujiwara, Shigeki ^a   Kawamura, Kazuo ^a   Yubisui, Toshitsugu ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Budding; Retinoic acid receptor; Retinoid X receptor; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

RETINOIC ACID; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; RETINOID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HORMONE RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; RETINOID X RECEPTORS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UROCHORDATA;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; POLYANDROCARPA MISAKIENSIS; PROTOZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034102277     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.2000.00478.x     Document Type: Article

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