Induction and patterning of trunk and tail neural ectoderm by the homeobox gene eve1 in zebrafish embryos

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3564-3569

  Cruz, Carlos ^a   Maegawa, Shingo ^b   Weinberg, Eric S ^b   Wilson, Stephen W ^c   Dawid, Igor B ^d   Kudoh, Tetsuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone morphogenic protein; Neural induction; Organizer; Posterior development; Retinoic acid

Indexed keywords

EVE1 GENE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROCOLLAGEN C PROTEINASE; RETINOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; NERVE GROWTH; NEURAL TUBE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; NEURAL TUBE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TAIL; TRETINOIN; ZEBRAFISH;

ANURA; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77649264809     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000389107     Document Type: Article

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