Notch and Ras promote sequential steps of excretory tube development in C. elegans

Development

Volumn 138, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 3545-3555

  Abdus Saboor, Ishmail ^a   Mancuso, Vincent P ^a   Murray, John I ^a   Palozola, Katherine ^a   Norris, Carolyn ^b   Hall, David H ^c   Howell, Kelly ^a   Huang, Kai ^a   Sundaram, Meera V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Ras; Tubulogenesis

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR; RAS PROTEIN;

ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CANAL CELL; CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXCRETORY TUBE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL LINEAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; RAS PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SOS1 PROTEIN;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79960779383     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.068148     Document Type: Article

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