Uncoupling different characteristics of the C. elegans E lineage from differentiation of intestinal markers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Robertson, Scott M ^a   Medina, Jessica ^a   Lin, Rueyling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL COUNTING; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; END 1 GENE; END 2 GENE; EXON; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; INTESTINAL DEVELOPMENT; INTESTINE CELL; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; SDZ 23 GENE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLASTOMA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GRANULE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INTESTINE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLASTOMERES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTESTINES; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 84907457130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106309     Document Type: Article

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