CWN-1 functions with DSH-2 to regulate C. elegans asymmetric neuroblast division in a beta-catenin independent Wnt pathway.

abstract：:Developmental patterning and growth of the vertebrate digestive and respiratory tracts requires interactions between the epithelial endoderm and adjacent mesoderm. The esophagus is a specialized structure that connects the digestive and respiratory systems and its normal development is critical for both. Shh signaling...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Korzh S,Winata CL,Zheng W,Yang S,Yin A,Ingham P,Korzh V,Gong Z

更新日期：2011-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hedgehog proteins have been implicated in the control of myogenesis in the medial vertebrate somite. In the mouse, normal epaxial expression of the myogenic transcription factor gene myf5 is dependent on Sonic hedgehog. Here we examine in zebrafish the interaction between Hedgehog signals, the expression of myoD famil...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Coutelle O,Blagden CS,Hampson R,Halai C,Rigby PW,Hughes SM

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coordinated contraction of the heart is essential for survival and is regulated by the cardiac conduction system. Contraction of ventricular myocytes is controlled by the terminal part of the conduction system known as the Purkinje fiber network. Lineage analyses in chickens and mice have established that the Purkinje...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Hua LL,Vedantham V,Barnes RM,Hu J,Robinson AS,Bressan M,Srivastava D,Black BL

更新日期：2014-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian heart development involves complex morphogenetic events which lead to the formation of fully separated left and right atrial and ventricular chambers from a tubular heart. Separation of left and right ventricular chambers is dependent on a single structure, the interventricular septum (IVS), which has both m...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Franco D,Meilhac SM,Christoffels VM,Kispert A,Buckingham M,Kelly RG

更新日期：2006-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-syndromic mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is the most common heart valve disease affecting 2.4% of the population. Recent studies have identified genetic defects in primary cilia as causative to MVP, although the mechanism of their action is currently unknown. Using a series of gene inactivation approaches, we define ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Fulmer D,Toomer KA,Glover J,Guo L,Moore K,Moore R,Stairley R,Gensemer C,Abrol S,Rumph MK,Emetu F,Lipschutz JH,McDowell C,Bian J,Wang C,Beck T,Wessels A,Renault MA,Norris RA

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During organogenesis, Sonic hedgehog (Shh) possesses dual functions: Shh emanating from midline structures regulates the positioning of bilateral structures at early stages, whereas organ-specific Shh locally regulates organ morphogenesis at later stages. The mesonephros is a transient embryonic kidney in amniote, whe...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Murashima A,Akita H,Okazawa M,Kishigami S,Nakagata N,Nishinakamura R,Yamada G

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hes3 belongs to the Hes basic helix-loop-helix family of transcriptional repressors that play central roles in maintaining progenitor cells and regulating binary cell fate decisions in the embryo. During Xenopus laevis development, hes3 is expressed in the embryonic ectoderm in a horseshoe shape domain at the edge of ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Hong CS,Saint-Jeannet JP

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sine Oculis (So), the founding member of the SIX family of homeobox transcription factors, binds to sequence specific DNA elements and regulates transcription of downstream target genes. It does so, in part, through the formation of distinct biochemical complexes with Eyes Absent (Eya) and Groucho (Gro). While these c...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Anderson AM,Weasner BP,Weasner BM,Kumar JP

更新日期：2014-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Germ line transformation has been used to map the cis regulatory DNA elements responsible for the precise and evolutionarily stable developmental expression of the s18 chorion gene. Constructs containing chimeric combinations of Drosophila melanogaster and D. grimshawi DNA regions, as well as D. grimshawi sequences al...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Swimmer C,Kashevsky H,Mao G,Kafatos FC

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serendipity delta (sry delta) is a member of a set of Drosophila zinc finger protein genes showing maximal transcription during oogenesis. By using transformant lines, we monitored the zygotic expression of the sry delta gene and characterized some biochemical properties of a sry delta/beta-galactosidase fusion protei...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Payre F,Yanicostas C,Vincent A

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-cell fusion is a fundamental cellular process that is essential for development as well as fertilization. Myoblast fusion to form multinucleated skeletal muscle myotubes is a well studied, yet incompletely understood example of cell-cell fusion that is essential for formation of contractile skeletal muscle tissue...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Duan R,Gallagher PJ

更新日期：2009-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Proper spatial expression of the wingless (wg) gene in the Drosophila embryonic epidermis is crucial to intrasegmental patterning. Single cell wide wg expression is initiated at the blastoderm stage in response to combinatorial regulation by the pair rule genes. Later, during gastrulation, when the epidermal expressio...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Yoffe KB,Manoukian AS,Wilder EL,Brand AH,Perrimon N

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:nautilus (nau), one member of the myogenic regulatory family of bHLH-encoding genes, is expressed in a subset of muscle precursors and differentiated fibers in the Drosophila embryo. To elucidate the role of nautilus in myogenesis, we have misexpressed it using the GAL4-targeted system. We find that ectopic expression...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Keller CA,Erickson MS,Abmayr SM

更新日期：1997-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Vulval epithelial tubes invaginate through concerted cell migration, ring formation, stacking of rings and intra-ring cell fusion in the nematodes Caenorhabditis elegans, Oscheius tipulae and Pristionchus pacificus. The number of rings forming the invaginations is invariantly seven, six, and eight, respectively. We hy...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Kolotuev I,Podbilewicz B

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ectodomain of LIN-12/Notch proteins is cleaved and shed upon ligand binding. In Caenorhabditis elegans, genetic evidence has implicated SUP-17, the ortholog of Drosophila Kuzbanian and mammalian ADAM10, as the protease that mediates this event. In mammals, however, biochemical evidence has implicated TACE, a diffe...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Jarriault S,Greenwald I

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hox genes can function as key drivers of segment identity, with Hox mutations in Drosophila often resulting in dramatic homeotic transformations. In addition, however, they can serve other essential functions. In mammals, the study of Hox gene roles in development is complicated by the presence of four Hox clusters wi...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Magella B,Mahoney R,Adam M,Potter SS

更新日期：2018-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the embryonic mouse retina, retinoic acid (RA) is unevenly distributed along the dorsoventral axis: RA-rich zones in dorsal and ventral retina are separated by a horizontal RA-poor stripe that contains the RA-inactivating enzyme CYP26A1. To explore the developmental role of this arrangement, we studied formation of...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Sakai Y,Luo T,McCaffery P,Hamada H,Dräger UC

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Egg yolk phosvitin is one of the most highly phosphorylated extracellular matrix proteins known in nature with unique physico-chemical properties deemed to be critical during ex-vivo egg embryo development. We have utilized our unique live mouse calvarial bone organ culture models under conditions which dissociates th...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Liu J,Czernick D,Lin SC,Alasmari A,Serge D,Salih E

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the identification, biochemical characterisation, and mutation of a novel mouse gene: Sp5. Sp5 encodes a protein having a C-terminal C(2)H(2) zinc finger domain closely related to that of the transcription factor Sp1. In vitro, DNA binding studies show that it binds to the GC box, a DNA motif present in th...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Harrison SM,Houzelstein D,Dunwoodie SL,Beddington RS

更新日期：2000-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to further our understanding of the biological role of desmin, the muscle-specific intermediate filament protein, a null mutation in the desmin gene was introduced into the germ line of mice. Despite the complete lack of desmin, these mice developed and reproduced. Since we show that skeletal, cardiac, and sm...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Li Z,Colucci-Guyon E,Pinçon-Raymond M,Mericskay M,Pournin S,Paulin D,Babinet C

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During mammalian spermiogenesis transitional proteins and protamines replace histones on the DNA as the chromatin condenses. While previous studies suggested that histone genes are inactive postmeiotically, we have shown both by steady-state RNA analysis and nuclear run-off transcription assays that histone 2b (H2b) t...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Moss SB,Challoner PB,Groudine M

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental feature of cartilage differentiation in the developing limb is the formation of a prechondrogenic cell condensation. An apparently similar process of prechondrogenic cell aggregation occurs in micromass cultures of limb bud mesenchyme with the formation of cellular aggregates which often differentiate in...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Cottrill CP,Archer CW,Wolpert L

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Procedures are described for removal of the vitelline membrane from gently fixed Drosophila embryos en masse. The resulting embryos retain excellent structural integrity and are now suitable for a variety of immunocytochemical and biochemical characterizations. ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Mitchison TJ,Sedat J

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aurora A is a mitotic kinase essential for cell proliferation. In mice, ablation of Aurora A results in mitotic arrest and pre-implantation lethality, preventing studies at later stages of development. Here we report the effects of Aurora A ablation on embryo patterning at early post-implantation stages. Inactivation ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Yoon Y,Cowley DO,Gallant J,Jones SN,Van Dyke T,Rivera-Pérez JA

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several Strongylocentrotus purpuratus gene cis-regulatory regions contain asymmetric C4 sequences which are core elements of target sites for a specific DNA-protein interaction. Blastula stage nuclear extract contains five proteins which specifically bind to these target sites, resulting in a characteristic pattern of...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Zeller RW,Coffman JA,Harrington MG,Britten RJ,Davidson EH

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key step in organogenesis of the Drosophila tracheal system is the integration of isolated tracheal metameres into a connected tubular network. The interaction of tracheal cells with surrounding mesodermal cells is crucial in this process. In particular, single mesodermal cells called bridge-cells are essential for ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Krause C,Wolf C,Hemphälä J,Samakovlis C,Schuh R

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：:In this study, we demonstrate the developmental activation, in the zebrafish embryo, of a surveillance mechanism which triggers apoptosis to remove damaged cells. We determine the time course of activation of this mechanism by exposing embryos to camptothecin, an agent which specifically inhibits topoisomerase I withi...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Ikegami R,Hunter P,Yager TD

更新日期：1999-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Choroideremia (CHM) is a hereditary eye disease caused by mutations in the X-linked CHM gene. Disruption of the Chm gene in mice resulted in prenatal death of Chm-/Y males and Chm-/Chm+ females that had inherited the mutation from their mothers. Male chimeras and Chm+/Chm- females with paternal transmission of the mut...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Shi W,van den Hurk JA,Alamo-Bethencourt V,Mayer W,Winkens HJ,Ropers HH,Cremers FP,Fundele R

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal growth and morphogenesis of the cranial vault reflect a balance between cell proliferation in the sutures and osteogenesis at the margins of the cranial bones. In the clinical condition craniosynostosis, the sutures fuse prematurely as a result of precocious osteogenic differentiation and craniofacial malformat...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Moore R,Ferretti P,Copp A,Thorogood P

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00