The pteridine pathway in zebrafish: Regulation and specification during the determination of neural crest cell-fate

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 172-182

  Ziegler, Irmgard ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biopterin; Neural crest; Ptaridines; Sepiapterin; Xanthine dehydrogenase; Xanthine oxidase; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

2,4,7 TRIOXOPTERIDINE; 7 OXOBIOPTERIN; BIOPTERIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I; ISOXANTHOPTERIN; META TYROSINE; PTERIDINE; SEPIAPTERIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL KINETICS; CELL SEPARATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; EYE COLOR; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; MELANOPHORE; NEURAL CREST CELL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT CELL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BIOPTERIN; CELL LINEAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GTP CYCLOHYDROLASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MELANOPHORES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MUTATION; NEURAL CREST; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PTERIDINES; PTERINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE; XANTHINE DEHYDROGENASE; XANTHINE OXIDASE; XANTHOPTERIN; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; MELANOPHORA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038579501     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0749.2003.00044.x     Document Type: Review

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