Developmental timing of a sensory-mediated larval surfacing behavior correlates with cessation of feeding and determination of final adult size.

abstract：:We have identified zebrafish orthologues of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and the ligand-binding component of its receptor GFRalpha1. We examined the mRNA expression pattern of these genes in the developing spinal cord primary motor neurons (PMN), kidney, and enteric nervous systems (ENS) and have...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Shepherd IT,Beattie CE,Raible DW

更新日期：2001-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous experiments have demonstrated that in the septo-hippocampal system choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) is induced by nerve growth factor (NGF) (Gnahn et al. (1983) Dev. Brain Res. 9, 45-52) and that hippocampal NGF and mRNANGF levels are correlated with the density of cholinergic innervation (Korsching et al. (1...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Auburger G,Heumann R,Hellweg R,Korsching S,Thoenen H

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of constitutively active Src protein tyrosine kinase in Xenopus oocytes has been shown to accelerate oocyte maturation suggesting that Src may be involved in meiotic progression. However, meiotic regulation of endogenous Src kinase in oocytes has not been investigated in detail. To address this problem, we ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Tokmakov A,Iwasaki T,Itakura S,Sato K,Shirouzu M,Fukami Y,Yokoyama S

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In Dictyostelium discoideum cyclic AMP (cAMP) metabolism during macrocyst development, i.e., the sexual cycle of this organism, and in giant cells, i.e., fusion products from opposite mating-type cells, was investigated. The pattern of change in cAMP levels during macrocyst development differed considerably from that ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Abe K,Orii H,Okada Y,Saga Y,Yanagisawa K

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, the BMP-related growth factor DBL-1 regulates body size and male tail morphogenesis via a conserved receptor/Smad signaling pathway. Smads are transcription factors, but rely on transcription cofactors for appropriate regulation of target genes in response to TGF-beta- and BMP-r...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Liang J,Yu L,Yin J,Savage-Dunn C

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous study of the development of the levator ani muscle (LA) revealed that the sex difference in muscle fiber number is under the control of testosterone during the perinatal period. In this study, the development of the LA muscle was examined in both sexes to test the hypothesis that testosterone action determine...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Joubert Y,Tobin C,Lebart MC

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of fibronectin in mesoderm cell migration and and the importance of mesoderm migration for gastrulation in Xenopus are examined. To allow for migration, a stable interface must exist between migrating mesoderm cells and the cells of the substrate layer, the blastocoel roof. We show that maintenance of this in...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Winklbauer R,Keller RE

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of heat shock genes is induced in all living cells by a series of proteotoxic treatments. Heat shock genes are also activated spontaneously during different phases of embryonic development. HSP89 alpha and HSC70 are expressed at a high level in the mouse blastocyst. A family of factors, called HSFs, are...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Mezger V,Rallu M,Morimoto RI,Morange M,Renard JP

更新日期：1994-12-01 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：:Primitive blood constitutes the ventralmost mesoderm in amphibians, and its cleavage-stage origin reveals important clues about the orientation of the dorsal/ventral axis in the embryo. In recent years, investigators employing various lineage-labeling strategies have reported disparate results for the origin of primit...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Lane MC,Sheets MD

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ooplasmic segregation in the late interphase zygote of the leech Theromyzon trizonare is accomplished by reorganization of an ectoplasmic cytoskeleton formed by polar rings and meridional bands. The dynamic properties of this cytoskeleton were explored by time-lapse confocal and video microscopy. Cytoskeleton assembly...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Fernández J,Toro J,Ubilla A

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been recently recognized as a major class of regulators in mammalian systems. LncRNAs function by diverse and heterogeneous mechanisms in gene regulation, and are key contributors to development, neurological disorders, and cancer. This emerging importance of lncRNAs, along with rec...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Kraus P,Sivakamasundari V,Lim SL,Xing X,Lipovich L,Lufkin T

更新日期：2013-04-15 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：:Tubes with distinct shapes and sizes are critical for the proper function of many tubular organs. Here we describe a unique phenotype caused by the loss of a novel, evolutionarily-conserved, Drosophila Smad-like protein, Expansion. In expansion mutants, unicellular and intracellular tracheal branches develop bubble-li...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Iordanou E,Chandran RR,Yang Y,Essak M,Blackstone N,Jiang L

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila Suppressor of Hairy wing [Su(Hw)] insulator protein has an essential role in the development of the female germline. Here we investigate the function of Su(Hw) in the ovary. We show that Su(Hw) is universally expressed in somatic cells, while germ cell expression is dynamic. Robust levels accumulate in ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Baxley RM,Soshnev AA,Koryakov DE,Zhimulev IF,Geyer PK

更新日期：2011-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroporation-based assays were used to test whether the myogenic regulatory factor (MRF) of Ciona intestinalis (CiMRF) interferes with endogenous developmental programs, and to evaluate the importance of its unusual N-terminus for muscle development. We found that CiMRF suppresses both notochord and endoderm develo...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Ratcliffe LE,Asiedu EK,Pickett CJ,Warburton MA,Izzi SA,Meedel TH

更新日期：2019-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fertilization results in the tyrosine phosphorylation of several egg proteins within minutes of sperm-egg binding and inhibitor studies have shown that tyrosine kinase activity is required for many aspects of egg activation. The present study demonstrates the presence of p59c-fyn kinase in the sea urchin egg and exami...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Kinsey WH

更新日期：1996-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentration of mast-cell precursors in hematopoietic tissues of mouse embryos was evaluated by a limiting dilution method. Cells from yolk sacs, livers, and bodies of (WB x C57BL/6)F1 (hereafter called WBB6F1)- +/+ embryos were injected directly into the skin of adult WBB6F1-W/Wv mice which were genetically depleted...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Sonoda T,Hayashi C,Kitamura Y

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The embryonic dorsal vessel in Drosophila possesses anteroposterior polarity and is subdivided into two chamber-like portions, the aorta in the anterior and the heart in the posterior. The heart portion features a wider bore as compared with the aorta and develops inflow valves (ostia) that allow the pumping of hemoly...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Lo PC,Skeath JB,Gajewski K,Schulz RA,Frasch M

更新日期：2002-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine whether the 200-kDa neurofilament protein (200K NFP) is involved in mechanically stabilizing axons, we studied the developmental appearance of immunoreactivity to nonphosphorylated and phosphorylated 200K NFP at the neuromuscular junction. Polyinnervated rat muscle fibers become singly innervated during the...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Donahue SP,Wood JG,English AW

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the molecular regulation of embryonic somite formation and development, we have cloned the full-length cDNA and characterized the embryonic expression profile of chicken Paraxis, a member of a novel family of basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) proteins, which has been suggested to play a role in paraxial mes...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Barnes GL,Alexander PG,Hsu CW,Mariani BD,Tuan RS

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Connective tissue outgrowths of neonatal muscle onto a substratum of bone matrix differentiate into cartilage in response to a bone morphogenetic protein (BMP). The BMP can be separated from bone matrix by extraction with 4 M guanidine hydrochloride (GuHCl) or degraded in situ by endogenous proteolytic enzymes to deac...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Kawamura M,Urist MR

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of the Drosophila leg is a good model to study processes of pattern formation, cell death and segmentation. Such processes require the coordinate activity of different genes and signaling pathways that progressively subdivide the leg territory into smaller domains. One of the main pathways needed for l...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Guarner A,Manjón C,Edwards K,Steller H,Suzanne M,Sánchez-Herrero E

更新日期：2014-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The interstitial cells of hydra form a multipotent stem cell system, producing terminally differentiated nerve cells and nematocytes during asexual growth. Under well-fed conditions the interstitial cell population doubles in size every 4 days. We have investigated the possible role of nerve cells in regulating this b...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Heimfeld S,Bode HR

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that cultured Schwann cells secrete platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and express PDGF receptors which transmit a mitogenic response particularly when their levels are upregulated by elevation of intracellular cAMP. In this study the expression of PDGF and PDGF alpha- and beta-receptors...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Eccleston PA,Funa K,Heldin CH

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hox genes play a central role in organogenesis and are implicated in the formation of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). The cdx genes encode homeodomain transcription factors that act as master regulators of the hox genes. In zebrafish, mutations in cdx4 cause a severe, but not complete, deficit in embryonic blood ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Davidson AJ,Zon LI

更新日期：2006-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The hallmark of the arthropods is their segmented body, although origin of segmentation, however, is unresolved. In order to shed light on the origin of segmentation we investigated orthologs of pair rule genes (PRGs) and segment polarity genes (SPGs) in a member of the closest related sister-group to the arthropods, ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Janssen R,Budd GE

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：:Using an in vitro model of rat epiphyseal chondrocyte differentiation in which cells are maintained in a three-dimensional cell pellet, we show that exogenous TGF-beta 1 reversibly prevents terminal differentiation of epiphyseal chondrocytes into hypertrophic cells. Through maintenance of gene expression for the carti...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Ballock RT,Heydemann A,Wakefield LM,Flanders KC,Roberts AB,Sporn MB

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hox genes are thought to participate in patterning the anteroposterior (a-p) axis during vertebrate embryogenesis. In this investigation, the spatial expression of six Hoxb genes was analyzed in early embryos of Xenopus laevis by in situ hybridization. Hoxb gene expression was first detected in late gastrulae/early ne...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Godsave S,Dekker EJ,Holling T,Pannese M,Boncinelli E,Durston A

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00