An Ets transcription factor, HrEts, is target of FGF signaling and involved in induction of notochord, mesenchyme, and brain in ascidian embryos

Developmental Biology

Volumn 261, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-38

  Miya, Takahito ^a   Nishida, Hiroki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian embryo; Embryonic induction; Ets transcription factor; FGF signaling; Mesenchyme formation; Neural induction; Notochord formation

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HRETS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BLASTOMERE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EGG; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; INHIBITION KINETICS; MESENCHYME; MESENCHYME CELL; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIGMENT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TADPOLE; TISSUE; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; VERTEBRATE; ZYGOTE;

ASCIDIA; HALOCYNTHIA; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0043164855     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-1606(03)00246-X     Document Type: Article

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