Notch signaling is involved in nervous system formation in ascidian embryos

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 212, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 459-472

  Akanuma, Takashi ^a   Hori, Sawako ^a,b   Darras, Sebastien ^c   Nishida, Hiroki ^a  

^a Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Ascidian; HrNotch; Nervous system; Notch signaling; PNS formation

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; NOTCH RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EPIDERMIS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; LARVA; MARKER GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; HALOCYNTHIA; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA;

EID: 0036935844     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-002-0264-x     Document Type: Article

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