Inhibition of retinoic acid receptor-mediated signalling alters positional identity in the developing hindbrain

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 545-556

  Van Der Wees, Jacqueline ^a   Schilthuis, Johannes G ^a   Koster, Cees H ^a   Diesveld Schipper, Helma ^a   Folkers, Gert E ^a   Van Der Saag, Paul T ^a   Dawson, Marcia I ^b   Shudo, Koichi ^c   Van Der Burg, Bart ^a   Durston, Antony J ^a  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

9 cis RA; All trans RA; Dominant negative RAR; Hindbrain; Hoxb 3; HX600; Krox 20; Mauthner; RAR RXR heterodimer; Retinoic acid; RXR homodimer; SR11246; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

RETINOIC ACID; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MESENCEPHALON; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMERE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SPINAL CORD; TERATOGENESIS; TRANSACTIVATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DIMERIZATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 2; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, DOMINANT; LIGANDS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; RETINOID X RECEPTORS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TERATOGENS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRETINOIN; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 15644380346     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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