The Drosophila bZIP transcription factor Vrille is involved in hair and cell growth

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 3651-3662

  Szuplewski, Sébastien ^a,b   Kottler, Benjamin ^a   Terracol, Régine ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cytoskeleton; Differentiation; Drosophila melanogaster; Growth; Proliferation; vrille

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR VRILLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ATROPHY; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CELL GROWTH; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO MEMBRANE; EPIDERMIS; EYE; FORELIMB; GENE INTERACTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; HAIR CELL; HAIR GROWTH; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGINAL DISC; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SALIVARY GLAND; STEM CELL; TRICHOME;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HAIR; LARVA; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WING;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0043011307     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00588     Document Type: Review

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