Visualization of an endogenous retinoic acid gradient across embryonic development

Nature

Volumn 496, Issue 7445, 2013, Pages 363-366

  Shimozono, Satoshi ^a   Iimura, Tadahiro ^a   Kitaguchi, Tetsuya ^b   Higashijima, Shin Ichi ^c   Miyawaki, Atsushi ^a,b  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c OKAZAKI INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MORPHOGEN; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

BIODEGRADATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FISH; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGAND; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GASTRULA; GENETIC CODE; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GASTRULA; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR PROBES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SOMITES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRETINOIN; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84876294515     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12037     Document Type: Article

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