Dorsoventral patterning of the Xenopus eye: A collaboration of retinoid, Hedgehog and FGF receptor signaling

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1737-1748

  Lupo, Giuseppe ^a   Liu, Ying ^b   Qiu, Rong ^b   Chandraratna, Roshantha A S ^c   Barsacchi, Giuseppina ^d   He, Rong Qiao ^b   Harris, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^c ALLERGAN INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dorsal retina; FGF receptor; Hedgehog; Optic stalk; Retinoic acid; Ventral retina; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; RETINOID; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL SYSTEM; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EYE; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRETINOIN; XENOPUS;

EID: 17744388800     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01726     Document Type: Article

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