The myogenic potency of HLH-1 reveals wide-spread developmental plasticity in early C. elegans embryos

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1795-1805

  Fukushige, Tetsunari ^a   Krause, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Muscle; MyoD; Myogenesis

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MYOD PROTEIN; MYOGENIC FACTOR; PROTEIN HLH 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTORS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 18844460377     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01774     Document Type: Article

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