Investigation of frizzled-5 during embryonic neural development in mouse

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 237, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1614-1626

  Burns, Carole J ^a   Zhang, Jianmin ^a   Brown, Erinn C ^a   Van Bibber, Alyssa M ^a   Van Es, Johan ^b   Clevers, Hans ^b   Ishikawa, Tomo O ^c   Taketo, M Mark ^c   Vetter, Monica L ^a,d   Fuhrmann, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye; Frizzled; Lens; Morphogenesis; Mouse; Optic cup; Pituitary; Retina; wnt

Indexed keywords

FRIZZLED 5; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIX3;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC DISK CUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YOLK SAC;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; EYE; FRIZZLED RECEPTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; NEURONS; OPTIC NERVE; PITUITARY GLAND; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RETINA; TIME FACTORS;

DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA;

EID: 44949184529     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21565     Document Type: Article

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