FGF-10 plays an essential role in the growth of the fetal prostate.

abstract：:During somitogenesis, oscillatory expression of genes in the notch and wnt signaling pathways plays a key role in regulating segmentation. These oscillations in expression levels are elements of a species-specific developmental mechanism. To date, the periodicity and components of the human clock remain unstudied. Her...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： William DA,Saitta B,Gibson JD,Traas J,Markov V,Gonzalez DM,Sewell W,Anderson DM,Pratt SC,Rappaport EF,Kusumi K

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Drosophila ventral nerve cord, the three pairs of Capability neuropeptide-expressing Va neurons are exclusively found in the second, third and fourth abdominal segments (A2-A4). To address the underlying mechanisms behind such segment-specific cell specification, we followed the developmental specification of t...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Suska A,Miguel-Aliaga I,Thor S

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Octopamine is a major monoamine in invertebrates and affects many physiological processes ranging from energy metabolism to complex behaviors. Octopamine binds to receptors located on various cell types and activates distinct signal transduction pathways to produce these diverse effects. We previously identified one o...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Lee HG,Seong CS,Kim YC,Davis RL,Han KA

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hox genes are well-known master regulators in developmental morphogenesis along the anteroposterior axis of animals. However, the molecular mechanisms by which Hox proteins regulate their target genes and determine cell fates are not fully understood. The silk gland of Bombyx mori is a tubular tissue divided into seve...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Kimoto M,Tsubota T,Uchino K,Sezutsu H,Takiya S

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of metaphase II-arrested hamster eggs with activators of protein kinase C has been reported to promote resumption of the cell cycle, second polar body emission, and pronucleus formation (G.I. Gallicano, S.M. Schwarz, R.W. McGaughey, and D.G. Capco, 1993, Dev. Biol. 156, 94-106). In contrast, we have not obse...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Moore GD,Kopf GS,Schultz RM

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth factors and the extracellular matrix have been shown to fulfill vital developmental roles in many embryonic systems. Our hypothesis is that a developmental role played by the extracellular matrix in sea urchins may be the binding of a PDGF-like growth factor to promote signaling activity. We report here that an...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Govindarajan V,Ramachandran RK,George JM,Shakes DC,Tomlinson CR

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments in which the developing gut of avian embryos was back-transplanted to permit the bowel to interact with the developing neural tube were undertaken. Segments of intestine from 4-day quail embryos were implanted between the somites and neural tubes of chick embryos of 7 to 24 somites. The spinal cord respond...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Rothman TP,Gershon MD,Fontaine-Pérus JC,Chanconie M,Le Douarin NM

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5' HoxD genes are required for the correct formation of limb skeletal elements. Hoxd13, the most 5'-located HoxD gene, is important for patterning the most distal limb region, and its mutation causes human limb malformation syndromes. The mechanisms underlying the control of developmental processes by Hoxd13, and by H...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Salsi V,Vigano MA,Cocchiarella F,Mantovani R,Zappavigna V

更新日期：2008-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the response of bovine oocytes matured in vitro for 24 hr to parthenogenic activation using compounds that increase intracellular calcium (ionomycin) or inhibit protein phosphorylation (6-dimethylaminopurine, DMAP). Treatment with ionomycin alone caused resumption of meiosis (57.8 +/- 7.8%) but not pr...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Susko-Parrish JL,Leibfried-Rutledge ML,Northey DL,Schutzkus V,First NL

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the spawned Xenopus egg, germ plasm is found as cytoplasmic islands spread over a wide cortical region of the vegetal pole. However, by the blastula stage, the same material is found concentrated into a few large blastomeres at the floor of the blastocoel. Components of the germ plasm can be specifically labeled wi...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Savage RM,Danilchik MV

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontransformed cultures of vascular smooth muscle cells proliferate until they form a confluent sheet of cells. Subsequently, the cells become reorganized to form multicellular nodules that are loosely attached to the substrate. The formation of nodules is facilitated by the addition of medium conditioned by nodular c...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Brennan MJ,Millis AJ,Mann D,Fritz KE

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three myogenic clonal cell lines were isolated from C3H 10T1/2 C18 cells (10T1/2) treated with 5-azacytidine (5-aza-CR). These lines reproducibly underwent fusion at confluence into functional myotubes capable of contracting in response to acetylcholine. The degree of fusion could be increased two- to threefold if the...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Liu L,Harrington M,Jones PA

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been posited that animal development evolved from pre-existing mechanisms for regulating cell differentiation in the single celled and colonial ancestors of animals. Although the progenitors of animals cannot be studied directly, insights into their cell biology may be gleaned from comparisons between animals a...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Dayel MJ,Alegado RA,Fairclough SR,Levin TC,Nichols SA,McDonald K,King N

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The murine homeobox genes Msx-1 and Msx-2 are related to the Drosophila msh gene and are expressed in a variety of tissues during mouse embryogenesis. We now report the developmentally regulated expression of Msx-1 and Msx-2 in the mouse mammary gland and show that their expression patterns point toward significant fu...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Friedmann Y,Daniel CW

更新日期：1996-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome integrity in the developing germ line is strictly required for fecundity. In proliferating somatic cells and in germ cells, there are mitotic checkpoint mechanisms that ensure accurate chromosome segregation and euploidy. There is growing evidence of mitotic cell cycle components that are uniquely required in t...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Czechanski A,Kim H,Byers C,Greenstein I,Stumpff J,Reinholdt LG

更新日期：2015-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Myoblast fusion (a critical process by which muscles grow) occurs in a multi-step fashion that requires actin and membrane remodeling; but important questions remain regarding the spatial/temporal regulation of and interrelationship between these processes. We recently reported that the Rho-GAP, GRAF1, was particularl...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Lenhart KC,Becherer AL,Li J,Xiao X,McNally EM,Mack CP,Taylor JM

更新日期：2014-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Closure of the cranial neural tube depends on normal development of the head mesenchyme. Homozygous-mutant embryos for the ENU-induced open mind (opm) mutation exhibit exencephaly associated with defects in head mesenchyme development and dorsal-lateral hinge point formation. The head mesenchyme in opm mutant embryos ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Zohn IE,Anderson KV,Niswander L

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 3' penultimate exon (exon 18) of transcripts from the muscle myosin heavy chain (MHC) gene of Drosophila melanogaster is excluded from mRNAs of embryonic and larval muscle, while it is included in mRNAs of adult thoracic muscles. By transforming organisms with the MHC gene 5' end, linked in-frame to the MHC gene 3...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Hess NK,Bernstein SI

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous attempts to study sorting out of Drosophila imaginal disc cells have been hampered by an inability to thoroughly dissociate these cells and the need to use cuticular markers which require several days of in vivo culture. This study overcomes these limitations by using a new dissociation procedure and a geneti...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Fehon RG,Schubiger G

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：FOREWORD:The neural crest has been the main object of my investigations during my career in science, up to now. It is a fascinating topic for an embryologist because of its two unique characteristics: its large degree of multipotency and the fact that its development involves a phase during which its component cells mi...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Le Douarin NM,Dupin E

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement components have been implicated in a wide variety of functions including neurogenesis, proliferation, cell migration, differentiation, cancer, and more recently early development and regeneration. Following our initial observations indicating that C3a/C3aR signaling induces chick retina regeneration, we ana...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Grajales-Esquivel E,Luz-Madrigal A,Bierly J,Haynes T,Reis ES,Han Z,Gutierrez C,McKinney Z,Tzekou A,Lambris JD,Tsonis PA,Del Rio-Tsonis K

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle fibers express members of the myosin heavy chain (MyHC) gene family in a fiber-type-specific manner. In avian skeletal muscle it is the expression of the slow MyHC isoforms that most clearly distinguishes slow- from fast-contracting fiber types. Two hypotheses have been proposed to explain fiber-type-s...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： DiMario JX,Stockdale FE

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The location and movement of mammalian gut tissue progenitors, prior to the expression of tissue-specific genes, has been unknown, but this knowledge is essential to identify transitions that lead to cell type specification. To address this, we used vital dyes to label exposed anterior endoderm cells of early somite s...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Tremblay KD,Zaret KS

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zygotic Wnt signaling has been shown to be involved in dorsoventral mesodermal patterning in Xenopus embryos, but how it regulates different myogenic gene expression in the lateral mesodermal domains is not clear. Here, we use transient exposure of embryos or explants to lithium, which mimics Wnt/beta-catenin signalin...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Shi DL,Bourdelas A,Umbhauer M,Boucaut JC

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global silencing of transcriptional activity in the oocyte genome occurs just before the resumption of meiosis and is a crucial developmental transition at the culmination of oogenesis. Transcriptionally quiescent oocytes rely on stored maternal transcripts to sustain the completion of meiosis, fertilization, and earl...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： De La Fuente R,Viveiros MM,Burns KH,Adashi EY,Matzuk MM,Eppig JJ

更新日期：2004-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized the antigen recognized by mab10, a monoclonal antibody that has been shown to modify outgrowth of thalamic and cortical axons in vitro, and investigated the influence of this antibody on axonal growth in the chicken retina in vivo. Immunopurification, peptide sequencing, and biochemical character...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Monnier PP,Beck SG,Bolz J,Henke-Fahle S

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the marine bivalve Hiatella flaccida, full-grown oocytes in ovaries are arrested at the first prophase (prophase-I) of meiosis, whereas spawned oocytes have reinitiated meiosis from prophase-I and are again arrested at the first metaphase (metaphase-I). The neurohormone serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) was abl...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Deguchi R,Osanai K

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cdc42, a member of the Rho family of GTP binding proteins, functions in the formation of polarized actin structures, in elongation of cell shape, and in cell signaling. Although genetic mutations previously have not been available in multicellular organisms, studies have attempted to discern Cdc42 functions in organis...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Genova JL,Jong S,Camp JT,Fehon RG

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Xenopus, the hatching and cement glands form at important boundaries in the head. We have examined induction of these glands in order to see the basis for this ectodermal patterning. Ectoderm can be induced to form hatching and cement glands by dorsal mesoderm and by the neural plate. Because the neural plate is su...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Drysdale TA,Elinson RP

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II collagen is a major component of hyaline cartilage, and has been suggested to be causally involved in promoting chondrogenesis during embryonic development. In the present study we have performed an immunohistochemical analysis of the distribution of type II collagen during several early stages of embryonic ch...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Kosher RA,Solursh M

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00