A zebrafish orthologue (whnb) of the mouse nude gene is expressed in the epithelial compartment of the embryonic thymic rudiment

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 179-185

  Schorpp, Michael ^a   Leicht, Markus ^a   Nold, Elvira ^a   Hammerschmidt, Matthias ^a   Haas Assenbaum, Annette ^a   Wiest, Waltraud ^a   Boehm, Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embryonic thymic rudiment; Epithelial compartment; Nude mouse; Zebrafish orthologue

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; ENDODERM; ENDOTHELIUM; EPITHELIUM; EYE; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMUS; ZEBRA FISH; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; EXON; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TIME;

DANIO RERIO; MUS MUSCULUS;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXN1 PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH; LECTIN; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WHN PROTEIN; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LECTINS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THYMUS GLAND; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 0036803182     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(02)00241-1     Document Type: Article

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