Early zygotic expression of transcription factors and signal molecules in fully dissociated embryonic cells of ciona intestinalis: A microarray analysis

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 639-655

  Noda, Takeshi ^a   Hamada, Mayuko ^b   Hamaguchi, Makoto ^a   Fujie, Manabu ^b   Satoh, Nori ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ciona intestinalis; Fully dissociated embryonic cells; Signal molecule genes; Transcription factor genes; Zygotic expression

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BUTADIENES; CIONA INTESTINALIS; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; NITRILES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 69449095664     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2009.01124.x     Document Type: Article

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