Developmental acquisition of genome-wide DNA methylation occurs prior to meiosis in male germ cells.

abstract：:Bullous pemphigoid antisera and monoclonal antibodies to type VII collagen were used to localize hemidesmosomes and anchoring fibrils, respectively, in tissues of developing eyes and healing corneal wounds of New Zealand white rabbits. In the 17-day fetal rabbit eye, both antibodies colocalize to the epithelial-stroma...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Gipson IK,Spurr-Michaud SJ,Tisdale AS

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetomodulin (FM) was previously shown to be a surface marker protein of parietal endoderm by in vitro differentiation of F9 embryonal carcinoma cells and by immunohistochemistry of in vivo embryos. BALB/3T3 and sarcoma S180 cells of the mouse were also shown to possess a protein which was indistinguishable from FM by ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Imada S,Yamaguchi H,Nagumo M,Katayanagi S,Iwasaki H,Imada M

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription factors (TFs) can regulate different sets of genes to determine specific cell types by means of combinatorial codes. We previously identified closely-spaced TF binding motifs located 8.2-8.5 kb 5' to the ATG of the murine Pou4f3 gene, a gene required for late hair cell (HC) differentiation and survival. ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Masuda M,Pak K,Chavez E,Ryan AF

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian Cul4 genes, Cul4A and Cul4B, encode the scaffold components of the cullin-based E3 ubiquitin ligases. The two Cul4 genes are functionally redundant. Recent study indicated that mice expressing a truncated CUL4A that fails to interact with its functional partner ROC1 exhibit no developmental phenotype. We...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Kopanja D,Roy N,Stoyanova T,Hess RA,Bagchi S,Raychaudhuri P

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Using optical imaging assays, we investigated the dynamics of acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) at laminin-associated clusters on cultured myotubes in the absence or presence of the nerve-derived clustering factor, agrin. Using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) on fluorescent bungarotoxin-labeled recepto...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Bruneau EG,Macpherson PC,Goldman D,Hume RI,Akaaboune M

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The murine allantois will become the umbilical artery and vein of the chorioallantoic placenta. In previous studies, growth and differentiation of the allantois had been elucidated in whole embryos. In this study, the extent to which explanted allantoises grow and differentiate outside of the conceptus was investigate...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Downs KM,Temkin R,Gifford S,McHugh J

更新日期：2001-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Plakoglobin and beta-catenin are cytoplasmic proteins associated with the intracellular plaques of cell adhesive junctions. While plakoglobin is present in both adherens junctions and desmosomes, beta-catenin is associated with the cadherins that accumulate only in adherens junctions. Both beta-catenin and plakoglobin...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： DeMarais AA,Moon RT

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of chimeras was generated by injecting single normal, parthenogenetic, or androgenetic blastomeres carrying transgenic markers under the zona pellucida of nontransgenic eight-cell embryos. These chimeras were cultured to the blastocyst stage and sectioned, and the transgenic component was detected by in situ ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Thomson JA,Solter D

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During mouse fertilization the spermatozoon induces a series of low-frequency long-lasting Ca(2+) oscillations. It is generally accepted that these oscillations are due to Ca(2+) release through the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (InsP(3)) receptor. However, InsP(3) microinjection does not mimic sperm-induced Ca(2+) osc...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Jones KT,Nixon VL

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activin is a potent inducer of axial mesoderm in vitro and may have a similar role in vivo. Xenopus laevis eggs contain significant amounts of activin or activin-like factors, but maternal activin transcripts have not been detected in Xenopus eggs. The maternal activin protein might be translated from activin beta A o...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Rebagliati MR,Dawid IB

更新日期：1993-10-01 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：:Initial studies suggested that spatial organization of the putative polar body contractile ring was determined by the peripheral aster in Spisula [Biol. Bull. 205 (2003) 192]. Here we report detailed supporting observations, including testing of aster and ring function with inhibitors. The metaphase peripheral aster w...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Pielak RM,Gaysinskaya VA,Cohen WD

更新日期：2004-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that secreted proteins from the anterior lateral endoderm, FGF8 and BMP2, are involved in mesodermal cardiac differentiation, which determines the first cardiac field, defined by the expression of the earliest specific cardiac markers Nkx-2.5 and Gata4. However, the molecular mechanisms responsible for ear...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Lopez-Sanchez C,Franco D,Bonet F,Garcia-Lopez V,Aranega A,Garcia-Martinez V

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermatogonial stem cells are required for the initiation of spermatogenesis and the continuous production of sperm. In addition, they can acquire pluripotency and differentiate into derivatives of the three embryonic germ layers when cultured in the appropriate conditions. Therefore, understanding the signaling pathw...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Braydich-Stolle L,Kostereva N,Dym M,Hofmann MC

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sperm-egg interaction was investigated in mouse eggs freed from the zona pellucida and injected with Clostridium difficile toxin B, the inhibitor of Rho family small G proteins. Toxin B reduced in a dose-dependent manner the percentage of eggs associated with sperm fusion on the surface or sperm nucleus decondensation...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Kumakiri J,Oda S,Kinoshita K,Miyazaki S

更新日期：2003-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Following their birth in olfactory placode, luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH)-containing neurons migrate across the developing cribriform plate and form a dispersed population in the mammalian basal forebrain. The present study reveals the colocalization of unique glycoconjugate antigens (detected with mono...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Tobet SA,Crandall JE,Schwarting GA

更新日期：1993-02-01 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：:Somatic gonadal niche cells control the survival, differentiation, and proliferation of germline stem cells. The establishment of this niche-stem cell relationship is critical, and yet the precursors to these two cell types are often born at a distance from one another. The simple Caenorhabditis elegans gonadal primor...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Rohrschneider MR,Nance J

更新日期：2013-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In mouse chimeras with parthenogenetic cell contribution, the skeletal musculature appears to be largely devoid of parthenogenetically derived cells. To analyze the appearance and early distribution of myotomal cells in parthenotes, we determined the expression of the muscle-specific transcription factors myogenin, MY...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Fundele R,Bober E,Arnold HH,Grim M,Bender R,Wilting J,Christ B

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental issue during nervous system development is how individual cells are formed from the undefined precursors. Differentiated neurons and glia, two major cell types mediating neuronal function, are acquired from immature precursors via a series of explicit controls exerted by transcription factors such as pro...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Mao H,Lv Z,Ho MS

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene transcription mediates many vital aspects of mammalian embryonic development. A comprehensive characterization and analysis of the dynamics of gene transcription in the embryo is therefore likely to provide significant insights into the basic mechanisms of this process. We used microarrays to map transcription in...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Wagner RA,Tabibiazar R,Liao A,Quertermous T

更新日期：2005-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signalling has been implicated in the generation of mesoderm and neural fates in chordate embryos including ascidians and vertebrates. In Ciona, FGF9/16/20 has been implicated in both of these processes. However, in FGF9/16/20 knockdown embryos, notochord fate recovers during later devel...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Yasuo H,Hudson C

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapidly growing human teratocarcinoma cells (Tera-2) can be induced to differentiate into quiescent, nontumorigenic cells expressing neuronal markers. To more closely mimic the in vivo conditions for tumor growth, we grew Tera-2 cells in three-dimensional collagen gel cultures. The undifferentiated cells proliferated ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Alanko T,Tienari J,Lehtonen E,Saksela O

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three dominant second-chromosome rearrangement mutations in Drosophila melanogaster, Aristapedioid1 (Arp), vestigial-Depilate (vgD), and vestigial62 (vg62), result in developmental abnormalities of the bristle sense organs on the notum, abdomen, legs, and wing margin. The bristle abnormalities are associated with over...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Sharp EJ,Martin EC,Adler PN

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Xenopus helix-loop-helix transcription factor Hairy2 is essential for neural crest progenitor survival and maintains cells in a mitotic undifferentiated pre-neural crest state. However, its mode of action remains largely unknown. Here we show that a Hairy2 DNA-binding mutant is unable to promote cell survival and ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Nichane M,Ren X,Souopgui J,Bellefroid EJ

更新日期：2008-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies suggest that sensory innervation of muscles is patterned by motor innervation. Muscle afferent projections mirror motor projections after various experimental manipulations and muscle afferents fail to project to muscle in the absence of motoneurons. It is not known, however, whether muscle afferents ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Wang G,Scott SA

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although communications between mammalian oocytes and their surrounding granulosa cells mediated by the Kit-Kit ligand (KL, or stem cell factor, SCF) system have been proven to be crucial for follicular development, Kit downstream signaling pathways in mammalian oocytes are largely unknown. In this study, by using ova...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Reddy P,Shen L,Ren C,Boman K,Lundin E,Ottander U,Lindgren P,Liu YX,Sun QY,Liu K

更新日期：2005-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization of the molecular pathways controlling differentiation and proliferation in mammalian hair follicles is central to our understanding of the regulation of normal hair growth, the basis of hereditary hair loss diseases, and the origin of follicle-based tumors. We demonstrate that the proto-oncogene Wnt3,...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Millar SE,Willert K,Salinas PC,Roelink H,Nusse R,Sussman DJ,Barsh GS

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell division is arguably the most fundamental developmental process for single-celled and multicellular organisms alike. The pathway from one cell division to the next is known as the cell cycle. A conserved biochemical regulatory network controls progress along this pathway in plants, animals, and yeasts. This revie...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Jacobs T

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse Otlx2 gene is a new member of the paired-like family of homeobox genes whose human homologue, RIEG, is involved in Rieger syndrome, an autosomal-dominant disorder. One of the cardinal features of Rieger syndrome is dental hypoplasia, indicating that Otlx2/RIEG activity is essential for normal tooth developme...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Mucchielli ML,Mitsiadis TA,Raffo S,Brunet JF,Proust JP,Goridis C

更新日期：1997-09-15 00:00:00