Dorsal aorta formation: Separate origins, lateral-to-medial migration, and remodeling

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 113-129

  Sato, Yuki ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dorsal aorta; Endoderm; Notochord; Quail chick chimera; Somite

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; AORTA; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CELL FUNCTION; CHICK EMBRYO; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL AORTA FORMATION; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE INACTIVATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; QUAIL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASCULAR BIOLOGY; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; AORTA; BODY PATTERNING; CELL MOVEMENT; CHICK EMBRYO; CHIMERA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; NOTOCHORD; QUAIL; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SOMITES; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

AVES; PHASIANIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84872130379     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dgd.12010     Document Type: Review

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