Mutations in spalt cause a severe but reversible neurodegenerative phenotype in the embryonic central nervous system of Drosophila melanogaster

Development

Volumn 129, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 5577-5586

  Cantera, Rafael ^a   Lüer, Karin ^b   Rusten, Tor Erik ^c   Barrio, Rosa ^d   Kafatos, Fotis C ^c   Technau, Gerhard M ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cell adhesion; Drospohila; Nervous system development; Neurodegeneration; Neuronal differentiation; Spalt

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; BINDING PROTEIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; FASCICLIN II; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NEUROGLIAN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SPALT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELLS, CULTURED; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LIGANDS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MUTATION; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ARMADILLO; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0036930041     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00158     Document Type: Article

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