Roles of hedgehog pathway components and retinoic acid signalling in specifying zebrafish ventral spinal cord neurons

Development

Volumn 138, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 5121-5134

  England, Samantha ^a,b   Batista, Manuel F ^b   Mich, John K ^c   Chen, James K ^c   Lewis, Katharine E ^a,b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Floor plate; Gli3; Interneuron; Smoothened; V1; V2; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

MATERNAL ZYGOTIC SMOOTHENED PROTEIN; P1 PROTEIN; PMN PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN P2; RETINOIC ACID; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYO; GENE SILENCING; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; VENTRAL ROOT; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MORPHOLINOS; NEURONS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; P-AMINOAZOBENZENE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRETINOIN; VERATRUM ALKALOIDS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; ERINACEIDAE; MUS;

EID: 80755152980     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.066159     Document Type: Article

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