Wnt/β-catenin dependent cell proliferation underlies segmented lateral line morphogenesis.

abstract：:The adult fungiform taste papilla is a complex of specialized cell types residing in the stratified squamous tongue epithelium. This unique sensory organ includes taste buds, papilla epithelium and lateral walls that extend into underlying connective tissue to surround a core of lamina propria cells. Fungiform papilla...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Liu HX,Ermilov A,Grachtchouk M,Li L,Gumucio DL,Dlugosz AA,Mistretta CM

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：:Using two different models of pregnancy failure in mice, we show in this communication that preimplantation embryonic development can be controlled, in vivo, with cytokines. In one model, described by us previously, CSF-1 is shown to block gestations in plugged females due to its induction of defective early developme...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Tartakovsky B,Ben-Yair E

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inverse gradients of transcriptional repressors antagonize the transcriptional effector response to morphogens. However, the role of such inverse regulation might not manifest solely from lack of repressors. Sonic hedgehog (Shh) patterns the forebrain by being expressed ventrally; however, absence of antagonizing Gli3...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Shimada IS,Somatilaka BN,Hwang SH,Anderson AG,Shelton JM,Rajaram V,Konopka G,Mukhopadhyay S

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development and plasticity of synapses are brought about by a complex interplay between various signaling pathways. Typically, either changing the number of synapses or strengthening an existing synapse can lead to changes during synaptic plasticity. Altering the machinery that governs the exocytosis of synaptic vesic...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Wairkar YP,Trivedi D,Natarajan R,Barnes K,Dolores L,Cho P

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myotendinous junctions (MTJs) are specialized sites at the surface of muscle fibers where force is transmitted between muscle and tendon. Morphogenesis of MTJs in the latter half of embryonic chick development is characterized by formation of basement membrane, appearance of subsarcolemmal densities, association of my...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Tidball JG

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prostate undergoes branching morphogenesis dependent on paracrine interactions between the prostatic epithelium and the urogenital mesenchyme. To identify cell-surface molecules that function in this process, monoclonal antibodies raised against epithelial cell-surface antigens were screened for antigen expression...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Marker PC,Stephan JP,Lee J,Bald L,Mather JP,Cunha GR

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve and muscle development was studied in paralysé mutant mice. The mutant phenotype is first recognizable 6-7 days after birth (PN 6-PN 7) as cessation of muscle growth and weakness and incoordination of movement. Mutant animals die between 2 and 3 weeks of age. Muscle fibers from paralysé mutants had a unimodal di...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Blondet B,Duxson MJ,Harris AJ,Melki J,Guénet JL,Pinçon-Raymond M,Rieger F

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The segmentation of somites from the paraxial mesoderm is a crucial event in vertebrate embryonic development; however, the mechanisms underlying this process are not well understood. In a yeast two-hybrid screen we have identified the novel basic-helix-loop-helix (bHLH) protein cMeso-1 which is expressed in the preso...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Buchberger A,Seidl K,Klein C,Eberhardt H,Arnold HH

更新日期：1998-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms involved in the formation and the differentiation of the liver remain unclear despite extensive studies. To investigate these events in mouse hepatic development, we have taken advantage of the N-myc mutant mouse line which exhibits abnormal liver development. N-myc mutant embryos die between 11.5 and 1...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Giroux S,Charron J

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HCO3(-) anion activates sperm motility, an important early step in capacitation, by increasing flagellar beat frequency through a pathway that requires the atypical adenylyl cyclase SACY and the sperm-specific C alpha2 catalytic subunit of PKA. Here we show that the accelerating action of HCO3(-) also requires the...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Carlson AE,Hille B,Babcock DF

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of the extracellular matrix protein tenascin was studied in the developing chick visual system to determine its possible regulatory role in retinotectal development. Little tenascin was present in the retinal optic fiber layer, and the optic nerve and tract, but was abundant in the stratum opticum of ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Perez RG,Halfter W

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During metamorphosis, the steroid hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone induces morphogenesis of imaginal discs, including the formation of appendages. IMP-E2 is an ecdysone-dependent, single-copy Drosophila gene, whose transcripts accumulate rapidly in imaginal discs in response to the hormone. The IMP-E2 product is secreted at...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Paine-Saunders S,Fristrom D,Fristrom JW

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple assay has been developed to measure cGMP-specific phosphodiesterase (cGPD) activity in crude soluble extracts of amoebae of Dictyostelium discoideum. When amoebae of different wild-type strains were starved on buffered agar, all strains exhibited an 8- to 12-fold increase in cGMP-specific hydrolyzing activity...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Coukell MB,Cameron AM,Pitre CM,Mee JD

更新日期：1984-05-01 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：:Gnathostomes (jawed vertebrates) possess skeletal muscles with unique functional and developmental features that are absent from cyclostomes-i.e., lamprey and hagfish. These gnathostome-specific traits include the epaxial and hypaxial division of myotomes, paired fin/limb muscles, shoulder girdle muscles, and the musc...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Kusakabe R,Kuraku S,Kuratani S

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between cellular position and growth control has been studied in cultures of dissociated fragments of mouse limb bud cells. Using cells derived from various positions along the anterior-posterior axis of the limb bud we have developed culture conditions that optimize growth of positionally isolated ce...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Shi C,Muneoka K

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila brain is tracheated by the cerebral trachea, a branch of the first segmental trachea of the embryo. During larval stages the cerebral trachea splits into several main (primary) branches that grow around the neuropile, forming a perineuropilar tracheal plexus (PNP) at the neuropile surface. Five primary ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Pereanu W,Spindler S,Cruz L,Hartenstein V

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle development (myogenesis) is a complex but precisely orchestrated process involving spatiotemporal regulation of the proliferation, differentiation and fusion of myogenic progenitor cells (myoblasts). Here we identify brain expressed x-linked gene 1 (Bex1) as a transient, developmentally regulated gene ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Jiang C,Wang JH,Yue F,Kuang S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the three polypeptide chains of the laminin subunits and the number of glycosylation sites in each polypeptide chain were determined using peptide mapping by high-performance liquid chromatography. Analysis of the [35S]methionine-labeled underglycosylated laminin isolated from tunicamycin (TM)-treated...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Howe CC,Dietzschold B

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulated changes in the cell cycle underlie many aspects of growth and differentiation. Prior to meiosis, germ cell cycles in many organisms become accelerated, synchronized, and modified to lack cytokinesis. These changes cause cysts of interconnected germ cells to form that typically contain 2(n) cells. In Drosophi...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Lilly MA,de Cuevas M,Spradling AC

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much progress has been made in elucidating the molecular networks required for specifying retinal cells, including photoreceptors, but the downstream mechanisms that maintain identity and regulate differentiation remain poorly understood. Here, we report that the transcription factor Glass has a dual role in establish...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Liang X,Mahato S,Hemmerich C,Zelhof AC

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The trkA gene encodes the tyrosine kinase receptor that transduces the NGF signal. We have used a defective herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) vector containing a full-length rat trkA sequence (pHSVtrkA) to express NGF receptors in primary cultures of neonatal nodose neurons and embryonic spinal motor neurons which are no...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Xu H,Federoff H,Maragos J,Parada LF,Kessler JA

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Islet1 (Isl1) is a LIM homedomain protein that plays a pivotal role in cardiac progenitors of the second heart field. Here, lineage studies with an inducible isl1-cre demonstrated that most Isl1 progenitors have migrated into the heart by E9. Although Isl1 expression is downregulated in most cardiac progenitors as the...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Sun Y,Liang X,Najafi N,Cass M,Lin L,Cai CL,Chen J,Evans SM

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wnt pathways are evolutionarily well-conserved signal transduction pathways that are known to play important roles in all Metazoans investigated to date. Here, we examine the Wnt pathway genes and target genes present in the genome of the echinoderm Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. Analysis of the Wnt genes revealed...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Croce JC,Wu SY,Byrum C,Xu R,Duloquin L,Wikramanayake AH,Gache C,McClay DR

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The members of the transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) superfamily are secreted proteins that interact with cell-surface receptors to elicit signals that regulate a variety of biological processes during vertebrate embryogenesis. Alk2, also known as ActRIA, Tsk7L, and SKR1, encodes a type I TGF-beta family rece...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Mishina Y,Crombie R,Bradley A,Behringer RR

更新日期：1999-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstitial cell migration was characterized in Hydra vulgaris (formerly H. attenuata) and the effects of axial position and tissue injury on migration were investigated. Migrating cells were labeled with the thymidine analog, bromodeoxyuridine, and grafted into unlabeled host polyps. Alternatively, cells were labele...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Teragawa CK,Bode HR

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein Galpha subunits contribute to the specificity of different signal transduction pathways in Dictyostelium discoideum but Galpha subunit-effector interactions have not been previously identified. The requirement of the Dictyostelium Galpha4 subunit for MAP kinase (MAPK) activation and the identification of a p...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Nguyen HN,Hadwiger JA

更新日期：2009-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoradiography has been used to confirm and to extend previous microspectrophotometric studies (Doerder and DeBault, 1975) on the timing of DNA synthesis during conjugation in Tetrahymena thermophila. The majority of DNA synthesis occurs at the expected periods preceding gamete formation and the two postzygotic divis...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Allis CD,Colavito-Shepanski M,Gorovsky MA

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of embryogenesis multicellular structures and organs are assembled from constituent cells. One structural component common to many organs is the tube, which consists most simply of a luminal space surrounded by a single layer of epithelial cells. The notochord of ascidian Ciona forms a tube consisting of...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Dong B,Horie T,Denker E,Kusakabe T,Tsuda M,Smith WC,Jiang D

更新日期：2009-06-15 00:00:00