prox1b activity is essential in zebrafish lymphangiogenesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Del Giacco, Luca ^a   Pistocchi, Anna ^b   Ghilardi, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN PROX1B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PRIMER DNA; PROSPERO RELATED HOMEOBOX 1 PROTEIN; PROSPERO-RELATED HOMEOBOX 1 PROTEIN; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; THORACIC DUCT; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; ZEBRA FISH; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

DANIO RERIO; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 78149431208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013170     Document Type: Article

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