Nodal regulates neural tube formation in the Ciona intestinalis embryo

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 217, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 593-601

  Mita, Kaoru ^a   Fujiwara, Shigeki ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Cdx; Lefty; Neural tube formation; Nodal; ZicL

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LEFT RIGHT DETERMINATION FACTOR PROTEINS; LEFT-RIGHT DETERMINATION FACTOR PROTEINS; PROTEIN NODAL; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CIONA INTESTINALIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEURAL TUBE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURAL TUBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSFECTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 38449091207     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: 1432041X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-007-0168-x     Document Type: Article

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