Rex1 (Zfp42) null mice show impaired testicular function, abnormal testis morphology, and aberrant gene expression.

abstract：:The adrenal cortex has a complex vasculature that is essential for growth, tissue maintenance, and access of secreted steroids to the bloodstream. However, the interaction between vasculature and adrenal cortex during early organogenesis remains largely unclear. In this study, we focused on the zebrafish counterpart o...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Liu YW,Guo L

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha11beta1 integrin constitutes a recent addition to the integrin family. Here, we present the first in vivo analysis of alpha11 protein and mRNA distribution during human embryonic development. alpha11 protein and mRNA were present in various mesenchymal cells around the cartilage anlage in the developing skeleton ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Tiger CF,Fougerousse F,Grundström G,Velling T,Gullberg D

更新日期：2001-09-01 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：:The role of retinoic acid (RA) in limb development is unclear, although it has been suggested to be a proximalizing factor which plays a morphogenetic role in pattern formation. Exogenous RA produces a teratogenic effect on limb morphology; similarly, changes in the endogenous distribution of RA following genetic abla...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Pennimpede T,Cameron DA,MacLean GA,Petkovich M

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitelline coats (VCs) of Phallusia mammillata were isolated and purified following homogenization of live eggs in order to investigate the molecular basis of sperm-egg recognition. Clean VCs were partly solubilized by sonication in H2O and the soluble fraction (SFVC), derived from the outer surface of VCs, was used fo...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Litscher E,Honegger TG

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor (EGF) expression and branching morphogenesis were inhibited using a 5' 15-mer antisense oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) directed against EGF precursor mRNA in embryonic mouse lung in culture under chemically defined, serumless conditions. Antisense EGF ODN resulted in > 90% inhibition of EGF immunor...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Seth R,Shum L,Wu F,Wuenschell C,Hall FL,Slavkin HC,Warburton D

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a nonneuronal cell line from Xenopus retinal neuroepithelium (XR1 cell line). On the basis of immunocytochemical characterization using monoclonal antibodies generated in our laboratory as well as several other glial-specific antibodies, we have established that the XR1 cells are derived from embryoni...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Sakaguchi DS,Moeller JF,Coffman CR,Gallenson N,Harris WA

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid hormone deficiency is known to deeply affect cerebellum post-natal development. We present here a detailed analysis of the phenotype of a recently generated mouse model, expressing a dominant-negative TRα1 mutation. Although hormonal level is not affected, the cerebellum of these mice displays profound alterat...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Fauquier T,Romero E,Picou F,Chatonnet F,Nguyen XN,Quignodon L,Flamant F

更新日期：2011-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive elongation of lens fiber cells is a central feature of lens morphogenesis. Our study investigates the role of N-cadherin junctions in this process in vivo. We investigate both the molecular players involved in N-cadherin junctional maturation and the subsequent function of these junctions as epicenters for t...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Leonard M,Zhang L,Zhai N,Cader A,Chan Y,Nowak RB,Fowler VM,Menko AS

更新日期：2011-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Using lineage tracers, we recently showed dorsal and ventral ectodermal compartments along the sides of the body in chick embryos. The compartments are formed both in presumptive limb-forming regions where they position the apical ridge and also in presumptive interlimb (flank). Here we show, using a novel technique c...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Altabef M,Logan C,Tickle C,Lumsden A

更新日期：2000-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This manuscript reports on the limb malformations and axial skeleton alterations found in legless fetuses and their heterozygote and wild-type littermates transplacentally exposed to all-trans-retinoic acid via a single intraperitoneal injection on Day 7, 8, 9, 9.5, 10, 10.5, or 11 of gestation. The most surprising as...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Scott WJ,Collins MD,Ernst AN,Supp DM,Potter SS

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the regulation of DNA synthesis in the heterokaryons of HL60 human myelomonocytic leukemia cells and NIH3T3 mouse fibroblasts to examine if the differentiated leukemia cells contained a replication inhibiting activity. Cell fusions were performed either by exposing a suspension of mixed cells to a...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Prudovsky IA,Tsong TY

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a posterior fragment of the chick's marginal zone (PM) was exchanged with equal sized lateral marginal zone fragment (LM), of the same blastoderm, its capacity to initiate an ectopic primitive streak (PS) was found to be both size and stage dependent. Good correlation was demonstrated between the areas of PM frag...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Eyal-Giladi H,Khaner O

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The germ-line cells of many animals possess a characteristic cytoplasmic structure termed nuage or germinal granules. In mice, nuage that is prominent in postnatal male germ cells is also called intermitochondrial cement or chromatoid bodies. TDRD1/MTR-1, which contains Tudor domain repeats, is a specific component of...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Hosokawa M,Shoji M,Kitamura K,Tanaka T,Noce T,Chuma S,Nakatsuji N

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveologenesis is the final step of lung maturation, which subdivides the alveolar region of the lung into smaller units called alveoli. Each of the nascent dividers serves as a new gas-exchange surface, and collectively they drastically increase the surface area for breathing. Disruption of alveologenesis results in ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Branchfield K,Li R,Lungova V,Verheyden JM,McCulley D,Sun X

更新日期：2016-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the zebrafish embryo, cells fated to give rise to the rostral brain move in a concerted fashion and retain tissue coherence during morphogenesis. We demonstrate here that Otx proteins have a dramatic effect on cell-cell interactions when expressed ectopically in the zebrafish embryo. Injection of zebrafish Otx1 or ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Bellipanni G,Murakami T,Doerre OG,Andermann P,Weinberg ES

更新日期：2000-07-15 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：:Cell polarity is thought to be required for the efficient production of nascent blastocoele fluid, which begins at the 16-cell stage of mouse preimplantation development. In this study the 4-cell/16-cell blastomere heterokaryon was used to test the hypothesis that solute transport across the apical membrane domain ind...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Wiley LM,Obasaju MF

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution and ontogeny of four neuropeptides in developing chick lumbosacral sensory and sympathetic ganglia were studied using immunohistochemical techniques. Antibodies to two of these peptides, substance P (SP) and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), stained small neurons in the medial part of the dorsal...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： New HV,Mudge AW

更新日期：1986-08-01 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：:The myogenic basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor myogenin plays an essential role in the differentiation of skeletal muscle and, secondarily, in rib and sternum formation during mouse development. However, virtually nothing is known about the quantitative requirements for myogenin in these processes. Here, we ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Vivian JL,Gan L,Olson EN,Klein WH

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A small number of signaling pathways are used repeatedly during organogenesis, and they can have drastically different effects on the same population of cells depending on the embryonic stage. How cellular competence changes over developmental time is not well understood. Here we used Xenopus, mouse, and human pluripo...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Rankin SA,McCracken KW,Luedeke DM,Han L,Wells JM,Shannon JM,Zorn AM

更新日期：2018-02-01 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：:Hox genes are highly conserved segmental identity genes well known for their complex expression patterns and divergent targets. Here we present an analysis of cis-regulatory elements in the Caenorhabditis elegans Hox gene egl-5, which is expressed in multiple tissues in the posterior region of the nematode. We have ut...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Teng Y,Girard L,Ferreira HB,Sternberg PW,Emmons SW

更新日期：2004-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeotic genes in the Antennapedia Complex of Drosophila specify identity of the posterior head segments; the labial segment requires Sex combs reduced (Scr) for proper development, Deformed (Dfd) specifies maxillary and mandibular identity, and labial is necessary for intercalary segment identity. Although mutations ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Pederson JD,Kiehart DP,Mahaffey JW

更新日期：1996-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Oocytes from LTXBO mice exhibit a delayed entry into anaphase I and frequently enter interphase after the first meiotic division. This unique oocyte model was used to test the hypothesis that protein kinase C (PKC) may regulate the meiosis I-to-meiosis II transition. PKC activity was detected in LTXBO oocytes at proph...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Viveiros MM,Hirao Y,Eppig JJ

更新日期：2001-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lens growth involves the proliferation of epithelial cells, followed by their migration to the equator region and differentiation into secondary fiber cells. It is widely accepted that fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signaling is required for the differentiation of lens epithelial cells into crystallin-rich fibers, but...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Song X,Sato Y,Felemban A,Ito A,Hossain M,Ochiai H,Yamamoto T,Sekiguchi K,Tanaka H,Ohta K

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uterus undergoes a series of dramatic changes in response to an implanting conceptus that, in some mammalian species, includes differentiation of the endometrial stroma into decidual tissue. This process, called decidualization, can be induced artificially in rodents indicating that the conceptus may not be essent...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Bany BM,Cross JC

更新日期：2006-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-gated Na(+) and K(+) channels are localized to distinct subcellular domains in mammalian myelinated nerve fibers. Specifically, Na(+) channels are clustered in high densities at nodes of Ranvier, while K(+) channels are found in juxtaparanodal zones just beyond regions of axoglial contact where sequential laye...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Rasband MN,Trimmer JS

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ephrins and semaphorins regulate a wide variety of developmental processes, including axon guidance and cell migration. We have studied the roles of the ephrin EFN-4 and the semaphorin MAB-20 in patterning cell-cell contacts among the cells that give rise to the ray sensory organs of Caenorhabditis elegans. In wild-ty...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Hahn AC,Emmons SW

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00