Early specification of ascidian larval motor neurons

Developmental Biology

Volumn 278, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 310-322

  Katsuyama, Yu ^a,b   Okada, Toshiaki ^a,c   Matsumoto, Jun ^a,d   Ohtsuka, Yukio ^a   Terashima, Toshio ^b   Okamura, Yasushi ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; BMP; Ion channel genes; LIM; Motor neuron

Indexed keywords

BMP PROTEIN; BMP RECEPTOR; CELL MARKER; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BLASTOMERE; BMP2 GENE; BMP4 GENE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GASTRULA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; HOMEOBOX; HRBMPB GENE; ISLET GENE; LARVA; LIM GENE; MICROINJECTION; MOTO A MOTONEURON; MOTO B MOTONEURON; MOTO C MOTONEURON; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL TUBE; NEUROECTODERM; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ASCIDIA; HALOCYNTHIA; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI;

EID: 12944297722     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2004.11.007     Document Type: Article

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