A dual requirement for Iroquois genes during Xenopus kidney development

Development

Volumn 135, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 3197-3207

  Alarcón, Pilar ^a   Roadríguez Seguel, Elisa ^a   Fernández González, Ana ^a   Rubio, Ruth ^a   Gómez Skarmeta, José Luis ^a  

^a Departamento de Biología Molecular e Ingeniería Bioquímica   (Spain)

Author keywords

Iroquois; Kidney; Patterning; Regulation; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN IRX1; PROTEIN IRX3; RETINOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; XENOPUS PROTEIN; XIRO1 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; XIRO3 PROTEIN, XENOPUS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURULATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGAN SIZE; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE; XENOPUS; ANIMAL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; HOMEOBOX; KIDNEY; METABOLISM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; KIDNEY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRETINOIN; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 58149378327     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.023697     Document Type: Article

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