Cell fate polarization in ascidian mesenchyme/muscle precursors by directed FGF signaling and role for an additional ectodermal FGF antagonizing signal in notochord/nerve cord precursors

Development

Volumn 134, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1509-1518

  Kim, Gil Jung ^a   Kumano, Gaku ^b   Nishida, Hiroki ^b  

^a Gangneung Wonju National University   (South Korea)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian embryo; Asymmetric cell division; Embryonic induction; FGF; FoxA; Mesenchyme; Notochord

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 16; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 20; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 9; GROWTH FACTOR; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3ALPHA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE EXPRESSION; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; MESENCHYME CELL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUSCLE CELL; NERVE CORD; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; ECTODERM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MYOBLASTS; NOTOCHORD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; UROCHORDATA;

ASCIDIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI;

EID: 34248512563     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02825     Document Type: Article

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