A floor plate enhancer of the zebrafish netrin1 gene requires Cyclops (Nodal) signalling and the winged helix transcription factor FoxA2

Developmental Biology

Volumn 252, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-14

  Rastegar, Sepand ^a   Albert, Stephanie ^a   Le Roux, Isabelle ^a   Fischer, Nadine ^a   Blader, Patrick ^a   Müller, Ferenc ^a,b   Strähle, Uwe ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

cyclops; Floor plate; foxA2 (HNF3 , axial); Hypochord; netrin1; Nodal

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3BETA; NETRIN; PROTEIN CYCLOPS; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; KNOCKOUT GENE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ZEBRA FISH;

CYCLOPS; DANIO RERIO; ERINACEIDAE; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0036435527     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2002.0837     Document Type: Article

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