Combinatorial Wnt control of zebrafish midbrain-hindbrain boundary formation

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 437-447

  Buckles, Gerri R ^a   Thorpe, Christopher J ^b   Ramel, Marie Christine ^a   Lekven, Arne C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Midbrain hindbrain boundary; Neural patterning; Wnt1; Wnt10b; Wnt3a; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

WNT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CEREBELLUM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MESENCEPHALON; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RHOMBENCEPHALON; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITES; WNT PROTEINS; WNT1 PROTEIN; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2442480431     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2004.03.026     Document Type: Article

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