Spatio-temporal regulation of Wnt and retinoic acid signaling by tbx16/spadetail during zebrafish mesoderm differentiation

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Mueller, Rachel L ^a,b   Huang, Cheng ^a   Ho, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CALMODULIN; CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; JANUS KINASE 2; NEDD8 PROTEIN; OSTEOGENIN; PROSTAGLANDIN E SYNTHASE; PROTEIN DNAJ; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RETINOIC ACID; RIBONUCLEASE H; SPHINGOSINE 1 PHOSPHATE RECEPTOR; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX16; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; TBX16 PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ERYTHROPOIESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITE; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; TAIL; TIME;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITES; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TAIL; TIME FACTORS; TRETINOIN; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 77956467190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-492     Document Type: Article

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