Overexpression of the transcriptional repressor FoxD3 prevents neural crest formation in Xenopus embryos

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 93-106

  Pohl, Barbara S ^a   Knöchel, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell migration; Embryogenesis; Neural crest; Winged helix factor; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ETOPOSIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAMMAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL CREST; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TECHNIQUE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL MOVEMENT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURAL CREST; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0343807010     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(01)00334-3     Document Type: Article

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