Oesophageal and sternohyal muscle fibres are novel Pax3-dependent migratory somite derivatives essential for ingestion

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 140, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 2972-2984

  Minchin, James E N ^a,b   Williams, Victoria C ^a   Hinits, Yaniv ^a   Low, Siew Hui ^c   Tandon, Panna ^d   Fan, Chen Ming ^c   Rawls, John F ^b,d   Hughes, Simon M ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypaxial muscle; In vivo lineage tracing; Mouse; Pax3; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; MORPHOLINO OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX3;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS MUSCLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IMMUNODETECTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VIVO STUDY; INGESTION; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHOMBOMERE 4; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOMITE; STERNOHYOID MUSCLE; SWALLOWING; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; ZEBRA FISH;

HYPAXIAL MUSCLE; IN VIVO LINEAGE TRACING; MOUSE; PAX3; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; DEGLUTITION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ESOPHAGUS; FETUS; JAW; MICE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE, STRIATED; MYOD PROTEIN; MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTOR 5; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; SOMITES; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO; GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84879652769     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.090050     Document Type: Article

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