Canonical Wnt signaling in the visceral muscle is required for left-right asymmetric development of the Drosophila midgut

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 128, Issue 11-12, 2012, Pages 625-639

  Kuroda, Junpei ^a   Nakamura, Mitsutoshi ^a   Yoshida, Masashi ^a   Yamamoto, Haruka ^a   Maeda, Takaaki ^a   Taniguchi, Kiichiro ^a   Nakazawa, Naotaka ^a   Hatori, Ryo ^a   Ishio, Akira ^a   Ozaki, Ayumi ^a   Shimaoka, Shunsuke ^a   Ito, Tamiko ^a   Iida, Hironao ^a   Okumura, Takashi ^a   Maeda, Reo ^a   Matsuno, Kenji ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Gut; Left right asymmetry; Visceral muscle; Wnt signaling

Indexed keywords

ARR PROTEIN; BETA CATENIN; CONNECTIN; FRIZZLED 2 PROTEIN; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 5; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 6; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT4 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARROW GENE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; INTESTINE MUSCLE; LEFT RIGHT ASYMMETRIC DEVELOPMENT; MIDGUT; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHAGGY GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TROPOMYOSIN 2 GENE; VISCERAL MUSCLE CELL;

ANIMALS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FRIZZLED RECEPTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MUTATION; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; ORGANOGENESIS; WNT PROTEINS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84857784117     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: 18726356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2011.12.002     Document Type: Article

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