Hedgehog signalling from the zona limitans intrathalamica orchestrates patterning of the zebrafish diencephalon

Development

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 855-864

  Scholpp, Steffen ^a   Wolf, Olivia ^a   Brand, Michael ^b   Lumsden, Andrew ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forebrain; Regionalization; Shh; Zebrafish; ZLI

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TIGGY WINKLE SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MATURATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DIENCEPHALON; DNA FLANKING REGION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THALAMUS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; MUTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THALAMUS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 32344446690     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02248     Document Type: Article

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