Pregnenolone stabilizes microtubules and promotes zebrafish embryonic cell movement

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7075, 2006, Pages 480-483

  Hsu, Hwei Jan ^a,b   Liang, Ming Ren ^c   Chen, Chao Tsen ^c   Chung, Bon Chu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYMES; MORPHOLOGY; RNA;

CELL DIVISION; CELL MIGRATION; EPIBOLY; PREGNENOLONES;

CYTOLOGY;

CHOLESTEROL; CYTOCHROME P450; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PREGNENOLONE; RNA;

BIOLOGY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTION; EMBRYO CELL; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SUPPLEMENTATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

EID: 31444453266     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04436     Document Type: Article

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