Snail precedes Slug in the genetic cascade required for the specification and migration of the Xenopus neural crest

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 483-494

  Aybar, Manuel J ^a   Nieto, M Angelo ^b   Mayor, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Crest migration; Crest specification; FoxD3; Neural crest; Slug; Snail; Zic5

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PROTEIN ETS1; PROTEIN FOXD3; PROTEIN ZIC5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SLUG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DOMINANT GENE; EMBRYO; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; MESODERM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL CREST; NEURAL CREST CELL; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL MOVEMENT; CHICK EMBRYO; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; NEURAL CREST; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037326619     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00238     Document Type: Review

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