Specification of an anterior neuroectoderm patterning by Frizzled8a-mediated Wnt8b signalling during late gastrulation in zebrafish

Development

Volumn 129, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 4443-4455

  Kim, Seok Hyung ^a   Shin, Jimann ^a   Park, Hae Chul ^a   Yeo, Sang Yeob ^a   Hong, Sung Kook ^a   Han, Sangtae ^a   Rhee, Myungchull ^a   Kim, Cheol Hee ^a   Chitnis, Ajay B ^a   Huh, Tae Lin ^a  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Anterior neuroectoderm; Brain patterning; Diencephalon; Eye primordia; Fz8a; Midbrain; Wnt8b; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REPRESSION; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BRAIN; ECTODERM; EYE; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENES, OVERLAPPING; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036796860     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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