Multiple points of interaction between retinoic acid and FGF signaling during embryonic axis formation

Development

Volumn 131, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2653-2667

  Shiotsugu, Jason ^a   Katsuyama, Yu ^a,d   Arima, Kayo ^a   Baxter, Allison ^a   Koide, Tetsuya ^a   Song, Jihwan ^b   Chandraratna, Roshantha A S ^c   Blumberg, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHA University   (South Korea)

^c Retinoid Research   (United States)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

FGF; Retinoic acid; XCAD3; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOX PROTEIN; OXYGENASE; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR ALPHA; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ALDEHYDE OXIDASE; ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; ANIMALS; AXIS; BODY PATTERNING; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FETAL PROTEINS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR, TYPE 1; RECEPTOR, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR, TYPE 4; RECEPTORS, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; RETINAL DEHYDROGENASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRETINOIN; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 3042776327     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01129     Document Type: Review

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