A retinoic acid-Hox hierarchy controls both anterior/posterior patterning and neuronal specification in the developing central nervous system of the cephalochordate amphioxus

Developmental Biology

Volumn 296, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 190-202

  Schubert, Michael ^a,b   Holland, Nicholas D ^c   Laudet, Vincent ^a   Holland, Linda Z ^c  

^a Univ Claude Bernard   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Branchiostoma; Chordate evolution; Hindbrain regionalization; Hox collinearity; Morpholino; Motor neuron; Neurogenesis; Retinoic acid antagonist

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; PROTEIN HOX1; PROTEIN HOX2; PROTEIN HOX3; PROTEIN HOX4; PROTEIN HOX6; RETINOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHORDATA; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; INVERTEBRATE; MESENCEPHALON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGIONALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL;

BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33746161060     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.04.457     Document Type: Article

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