Expression of the T-box gene Eomesodermin during early mouse development.

abstract：:The expression pattern of K(+) currents is the principal regulator of electrical activity during development of the nervous and muscular system. We report here a study showing the expression pattern of HERG K(+) currents-encoding (erg) genes in various nervous and muscular tissues at different stages of quail embryo d...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Crociani O,Cherubini A,Piccini E,Polvani S,Costa L,Fontana L,Hofmann G,Rosati B,Wanke E,Olivotto M,Arcangeli A

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of the human interphotoreceptor retinoid binding protein (IRBP) gene is strictly tissue specific, being restricted to retinal photoreceptors and pinealocytes. We have previously demonstrated that a sequence named A element, in the IRBP promoter is essential for IRBP gene transcription in vivo. Here we de...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Bobola N,Briata P,Ilengo C,Rosatto N,Craft C,Corte G,Ravazzolo R

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Craniofacial development is a highly conserved process that requires complex interactions between neural crest cells (NCCs) and pharyngeal tissues derived from all three germ layers. Signals emanating from the pharyngeal endoderm drive differentiation of NCCs into craniofacial cartilage, and disruption of this process...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Dworkin S,Simkin J,Darido C,Partridge DD,Georgy SR,Caddy J,Wilanowski T,Lieschke GJ,Doggett K,Heath JK,Jane SM

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipids, in addition to being structural components of cell membranes, can act as signaling molecules. Bioactive lipids, such as sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) and lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), may act intracellularly as second messengers or be secreted and act as intercellular signaling molecules. Such molecules can aff...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Renault AD,Starz-Gaiano M,Lehmann R

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used whole mount in situ hybridization to analyze the pattern of expression of the gene Endo 16 in S. purpuratus embryos. The mRNA is first detectable at 18 h post-fertilization in the cytoplasm of blastomeres derived from the Veg2 6th cleavage tier. The number of Endo 16 positive cells increases gradually thr...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Ransick A,Ernst S,Britten RJ,Davidson EH

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the developing eye of Drosophila the protein kinase D-Raf controls the specification of the R7 photoreceptor cells. We show that overexpression of wild-type D-Raf inhibits the formation of R7 cells in a dose-dependent manner. Conversely, overexpression of mutant D-Raf proteins in which the conserved S388 is replace...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Rommel C,Radziwill G,Moelling K,Hafen E

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lobopodium is a hyaline cytoplasmic protrusion which rotates circumferencially around a cell. This movement is called circus movement, which is seen in dissociated cells of amphibian embryos. Relative abundance of the lobopodia-forming cells changes temporally and spatially within Xenopus embryos, reflecting stage-dep...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Minoura I,Nakamura H,Tashiro K,Shiokawa K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the characterization of a zebrafish DnaJ-like protein, homologue to the human Hsp40 protein hdj1, that we named zf-Hsp40. We have studied its expression during fin regeneration and we show that zf-Hsp40 mRNA level is drastically increased in all ray segments beneath the regenerated part, or blastema, in resp...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Tawk M,Joulie C,Vriz S

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The embryonic fins and the tip of adult fins of teleost fish are supported by rows of straight, unmineralized fibrils called actinotrichia. The proximal ends of the actinotrichia are bundled and the mineralized bones called lepidotrichia are made along them. Since malformation in actinotrichia causes wavy fin bones, t...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Kuroda J,Iwane AH,Kondo S

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of signal perturbation on expression domains of molecular markers for the mesoderm and ectoderm have been analysed across the dorso-ventral axis in zebrafish embryos. Injection of RNA encoding bone morphogenetic protein-4 (BMP-4) ventralised the embryo, expanding the intermediate mesoderm and non-neural ec...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Neave B,Holder N,Patient R

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that otx2 activates ectopic formation of the Xenopus cement gland only in ventrolateral ectoderm, defining a region of the embryo permissive for cement gland formation. In this paper, we explore the molecular identity of this permissive area. One candidate permissive factor is BMP4, whose putative...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Gammill LS,Sive H

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila Spitz is a homolog of transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-alpha) and is an activating ligand for the EGF receptor (Egfr). It has been shown that Star is required for Spitz activity. Here we show that Star is quantitatively limiting for Spitz production during eye development. We also show that Star and Sp...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Hsiung F,Griffis ER,Pickup A,Powers MA,Moses K

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dystroglycan is a transmembrane receptor protein that provides a structural linkage between extracellular matrix components and cytoskeletal proteins. It was originally characterized as a member of dystrophin associated protein complex in muscle but, unlike other proteins of this complex, mutations in the dystroglycan...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Lunardi A,Dente L

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wnt-4 signaling plays a critical role in kidney development and is associated with the epithelial conversion of the metanephric mesenchyme. Furthermore, secreted Frizzled-related proteins (sFRPs) that can bind Wnts are normally expressed in the developing metanephros, and function in other systems as modulators of Wnt...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Yoshino K,Rubin JS,Higinbotham KG,Uren A,Anest V,Plisov SY,Perantoni AO

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian cell culture studies have shown that several members of the nuclear receptor super family such as glucocorticoid receptor, retinoic acid receptor and thyroid hormone receptor can repress the activity of AP-1 proteins by a mechanism that does not require the nuclear receptor to bind to DNA directly, but that ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Gritzan U,Weiss C,Brennecke J,Bohmann D

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five chick homeodomain proteins (CHOXs), CHOX-1.7, -1.1, -1.4, -4.2 and -2.6, had different transcription-regulating activities in a chick cultured cell line, LMH. In particular, CHOX-1.7 highly activated transcription when NP6 was used as the target site whereas CHOX-1.4 did not. This was mainly due to differences in...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Sasaki H,Yamamoto M,Kuroiwa A

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mastermind, which is a Notch signal component, is a nuclear protein and is thought to contribute to the transactivation of target genes. Previously we showed that XMam1, Xenopus Mastermind1, was essential in the transactivation of a Notch target gene, XESR-1, and was involved in primary neurogenesis. To examine the fu...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Katada T,Ito M,Kojima Y,Miyatani S,Kinoshita T

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To analyse the possible roles of Drosophila tumour suppressor genes, 1(2)gl and 1(2)gd, in differentiation programmes of imaginal cells, we investigated their interactions with two segment polarity genes, viz., cubitus interruptus Dominant (ci-D) and engrailed (en), by examining their patterns of expression in tumouro...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Mukherjee A,Lakhotia SC,Roy JK

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study utilizes morphological and mechanistic endpoints to characterize the onset of bilateral atresia of the vas deferens in a recently derived cystic fibrosis (CF) rat model. Embryonic reproductive structures, including Wolffian (mesonephric) duct, Mullerian (paramesonephric) duct, mesonephric tubules, and gonad...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Plyler ZE,Birket SE,Schultz BD,Hong JS,Rowe SM,Petty CF,Crowley MR,Crossman DK,Schoeb TR,Sorscher EJ

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exogenously applied retinoic acid given at the early stages of gastrulation causes abnormal development of the caudal midbrain and anterior hindbrain in vertebrate embryos. We describe the limits of the brain regions that are affected using neuroanatomical criteria in the zebrafish embryo. Analysis of the reticulospin...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Hill J,Clarke JD,Vargesson N,Jowett T,Holder N

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ADAMs are multidomain cell surface proteins that function in receptor-ligand processing, cell adhesion and fusion, and signaling. SpADAM, a single copy sea urchin ADAM gene with a 3072 bp open reading frame, is expressed during embryonic and larval development. The deduced SpADAM protein is 1023 amino acids long and i...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Rise M,Burke RD

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commissureless (Comm) is a novel transmembrane molecule necessary both for commissural axons to cross the midline of the Drosophila central nervous system and normal synaptogenesis. Comm is able to reduce cell surface levels of Roundabout (Robo), a receptor for the midline repellent Slit, on commissural axons and unkn...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Georgiou M,Tear G

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The localization of RNAs at the vegetal cortex in Xenopus oocytes is a complex process, involving at least two different pathways. The early, or messenger transport organizer (METRO), pathway, localizes RNAs such as Xlsirts, Xcat2 and Xwnt11 during stages 1 and 2 of oogenesis, while the late pathway localizes RNAs suc...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Kloc M,Etkin LD

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selective sensitivity of cells to programmed cell death (PCD) depends on the positive and negative death-inducing signals that converge into the apoptotic pathway. In Drosophila, the midline glial (MG) cells undergo selective death during development. Here, we show that the long isoform of the RNA-binding protein ...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Reuveny A,Elhanany H,Volk T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terminal portions of the Drosophila body pattern are specified by an extracellular ligand generated at each end of the early syncytial embryo. This ligand triggers the localized transcription of two gap segmentation genes, tailles (tll) and huckebein (hkb) through a signal transduction cascade involving the receptor t...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Casanova J,Llimargas M,Greenwood S,Struhl G

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the final stages of embryogenesis, the Drosophila embryo exhibits a dorsal hole covered by a simple epithelium of large cells termed the amnioserosa (AS). Dorsal closure is the process whereby this hole is closed through the coordination of cellular activities within both the AS and the epidermis. Genetic analy...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Fernández BG,Arias AM,Jacinto A

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chick dermis is known to control the formation of feathers and interfeathery skin in a hexagonal pattern. The evidence that the segregation of two types of fibroblasts involves Delta/Notch signalling is based on three facts. Rings of C-Delta-1-expressing fibroblasts precede and delimit the forming feather primordi...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Viallet JP,Prin F,Olivera-Martinez I,Hirsinger E,Pourquié O,Dhouailly D

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vertebrate neural tube develops by two distinct mechanisms. Anteriorly, in the brain and future trunk (cervicothoracic) region, 'primary neurulation' occurs, where an epithelial sheet rolls or bends into a tube. Posteriorly, in the future lumbar and tail region, the neural tube forms by 'secondary neurulation', wh...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Lowery LA,Sive H

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth is confined within a size that is normal for each species, revealing that somehow an organism 'knows' when this size has been reached. Within a species, growth is also variable, but despite this, proportion and structure are maintained. Perhaps, the key element in the control of size is the control of cell numb...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Hidalgo A,ffrench-Constant C

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vegetally localized RNAs in Xenopus oocytes have been implicated in the establishment of the primary germ layers and the formation and development of the primordial germ cells. fatvg mRNA is localized through the late pathway to the vegetal cortex. Like Vg1 mRNA fatvg is distributed throughout the entire cortex; howev...

journal_title：Mechanisms of development

authors： Chan AP,Kloc M,Bilinski S,Etkin LD

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00