The Pax3 and Pax7 paralogs cooperate in neural and neural crest patterning using distinct molecular mechanisms, in Xenopus laevis embryos

Developmental Biology

Volumn 340, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 381-396

  Maczkowiak, Frédérique ^a,b,c   Matéos, Stéphanie ^a,b   Wang, Estee ^d   Roche, Daniel ^a,b,c   Harland, Richard ^d   Monsoro Burq, Anne H ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; FGF; Krox20; Mesoderm; Neural crest; Otx2; Patterning; Pax3; Pax7; Snail2; WNT

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX7;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MESENCEPHALON; MESODERM; NERVE FIBER; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SPINAL CORD; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 77951204242     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2010.01.022     Document Type: Article

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