Silencing of Smed-βcatenin1 generates radial-like hypercephalized planarians

Development

Volumn 135, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1215-1221

  Iglesias, Marta ^a   Gomez Skarmeta, Jose Luis ^b   Saló, Emili ^a   Adell, Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

Author keywords

catenin; Anteroposterior axis; Planarians; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA BETA CATENIN 1; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA BETA CATENIN 2; HELMINTH PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; WNT PROTEIN;

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TURBELLARIA; XENOPUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEAD; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REGENERATION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

BILATERIA; PLATYHELMINTHES; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA; TURBELLARIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BODY PATTERNING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEAD; HELMINTH PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANARIANS; REGENERATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS;

EID: 43049139880     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.020289     Document Type: Article

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