A role for GnRH in early brain regionalization and eye development in zebrafish

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 257-258, Issue , 2006, Pages 47-64

  Wu, Sheng ^a   Page, Louise ^a   Sherwood, Nancy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain markers (fgf8, pax2.1, pax6.1); GnRH2; GnRH3; Knockdown; Morpholino

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN 2; GONADORELIN 3; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN FGF8; PROTEIN MAB2112; PROTEIN MEIS1.1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2.1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6.1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; HORMONE ACTION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESENCEPHALON; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; BRAIN; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCEPHALON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; ORGANOGENESIS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PYRROLIDONECARBOXYLIC ACID; RECEPTOR, EPHA4; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 33747886950     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2006.06.010     Document Type: Article

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