Chromatin associated Sin3A is essential for male germ cell lineage in the mouse.

abstract：:Major insulin gene transcription factors, such as PDX-1 or NeuroD1, have equally important roles in pancreatic development and the differentiation of pancreatic endocrine cells. Previously, we identified and cloned another critical insulin gene transcription factor MafA (RIPE3b1) and reported that other Maf factors we...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Nishimura W,Kondo T,Salameh T,El Khattabi I,Dodge R,Bonner-Weir S,Sharma A

更新日期：2006-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In most ascidians, metamorphosis of tadpole-like swimming larvae is accompanied by dynamic changes in their shape to form sessile adults. The mechanisms underlying ascidian metamorphosis have been debated for a long time. Although recent molecular studies have revealed the presence of various molecules involving in th...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Nakayama-Ishimura A,Chambon JP,Horie T,Satoh N,Sasakura Y

更新日期：2009-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work in our laboratory has shown that a 62- to 64-kDa protein was a major component of the perinuclear ring of manchettes fractionated from rat spermatids. Mass spectrometry analysis of this protein indicated the presence of a glycine-rich domain homologous to human keratin 9 (K9). Several antibodies to K9, r...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Mochida K,Rivkin E,Gil M,Kierszenbaum AL

更新日期：2000-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The egg activation process functions to implement developmental programs that act much later in embryogenesis. One example of this is the fact that application of protein tyrosine kinase inhibitors to the fertilized sea urchin egg for a 15-min period results in a defect in the gastrulation process occurring over 24 h ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Livingston BT,VanWinkle CE,Kinsey WH

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:Elastic fibers are produced during fetal and neonatal periods, and by maturity elastin expression has ceased. Fetal bovine hyaline chondrocytes acquired an elastogenic phenotype within 24 hr after isolation from the tissue, even though the tissue does not produce elastic fibers or tropoelastin mRNA in vivo. By multipl...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Lee KA,Pierce RA,Davis EC,Mecham RP,Parks WC

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three unrelated chromosome 2q14.1-14.2 region translocations caused the split hand/foot limb malformation development in humans by an unknown mechanism. Their etiology was described by the autosomal dominant inheritance with incomplete penetrance genetic model although authors stated, "the understanding of the genotyp...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Klar AJ

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammillary body, a ventral specialization of the caudal hypothalamus, lies close to the transition between epichordal and prechordal parts of the forebrain (Puelles and Rubenstein, 2003). This report examines its presumed causal connection with either prechordal or notochordal mesodermal induction, as well as the ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： García-Calero E,Fernández-Garre P,Martínez S,Puelles L

更新日期：2008-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, we demonstrated trophic effects of vitamin A and its active metabolite, retinoic acid (RA), on perinatal rat spinal cord neurons and astrocytes in vitro. We now report that RA increases the survival of cholinergic neurons without affecting that of GABAergic neurons. These results were supported by...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Wuarin L,Sidell N

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous experiments in which vitamin A has been administered to developing or regenerating limbs have shown that different limb axes are affected. In regenerating axolotl limbs, serial reduplications in the proximodistal axis are produced. In the developing chick limb bud, mirror-imaged reduplications in the anteropo...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Maden M

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cis-regulatory modules (CRMs) control spatiotemporal gene expression patterns in embryos. While measurement of quantitative CRM activities has become efficient, measurement of spatial CRM activities still relies on slow, one-by-one methods. To overcome this bottleneck, we have developed a high-throughput method that c...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Guay CL,McQuade ST,Nam J

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic embryogenesis is one of the best examples of the remarkable developmental plasticity of plants, in which committed somatic cells can dedifferentiate and acquire the ability to form an embryo and regenerate an entire plant. In Arabidopsis thaliana, the shoot apices of young seedlings have been reported as an al...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Kadokura S,Sugimoto K,Tarr P,Suzuki T,Matsunaga S

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：:The first step in the development of the Drosophila optic medullar primordia is the expansion of symmetrically dividing neuroepithelial cells (NEs); this step is then followed by the appearance of asymmetrically dividing neuroblasts (NBs). However, the mechanisms responsible for the change from NEs to NBs remain uncle...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Orihara-Ono M,Toriya M,Nakao K,Okano H

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The germinal vesicle (GV) of starfish oocytes contains a factor which is required to drive the cytoplasmic cycle of the meiotic division. Biochemical investigation of this factor has been difficult due to the small quantities of obtainable GV materials. To overcome this, we have developed a mass-isolation procedure fo...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Nemoto S,Yamamoto K,Hashimoto N

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We cloned Xenopus Strabismus (Xstbm), a homologue of the Drosophila planar cell or tissue polarity gene. Xstbm encodes four transmembrane domains in its N-terminal half and a PDZ-binding motif in its C-terminal region, a structure similar to Drosophila and mouse homologues. Xstbm is expressed strongly in the deep cell...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Goto T,Keller R

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex-determination in Caenorhabditis elegans requires regulation of gene transcription and protein activity and stability. sel-10 encodes a WD40-repeat-containing F-box protein that likely mediates the ubiquitin-mediated degradation of important sex-determination factors. Loss of sel-10 results in a mild masculinizatio...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Killian DJ,Harvey E,Johnson P,Otori M,Mitani S,Xue D

更新日期：2008-10-15 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：:Wnt-4, a member of the Wnt family of secreted signaling molecules, is essential for nephrogenesis, but its expression in the presumptive medulla suggests additional developmental roles in kidney organogenesis. We demonstrate here that Wnt-4 signaling plays also a role in the determination of the fate of smooth muscle ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Itäranta P,Chi L,Seppänen T,Niku M,Tuukkanen J,Peltoketo H,Vainio S

更新日期：2006-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:How organisms control organ size is not fully understood. We found that Syd/JIP3 is required for proper wing size in Drosophila. JIP3 mutations are associated with organ size defects in mammals. The underlying mechanisms are not well understood. We discovered that Syd/JIP3 inhibition results in a downregulation of the...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Ahmad V,Vadla GP,Chabu CY

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the full grown oocyte of Xenopus laevis, a sodium permeability can be induced by depolarization to positive potential with current injection. Voltage-clamp analysis has shown that depolarization causes a long-lasting modification of the membrane during which voltage-gated sodium channels become functional. In the p...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Baud C

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HB-GAM (heparin-binding growth-associated molecule) is a secretory, extracellular matrix-associated protein that was isolated by screening for proteins that enhance neurite outgrowth in perinatal rat brain neurons. In the present study we have investigated the possible role of HB-GAM in cell proliferation in the devel...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Szabat E,Rauvala H

更新日期：1996-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Most, if not all, endocrine cells seem capable of synthesizing and storing more than one hormone. Such cellular colocalization of hormones can be due either to the presence of two or more specific granules within the cells or to colocalization of the hormones within a single granule. The present study was performed to...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Lukinius A,Ericsson JL,Grimelius L,Korsgren O

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila brain is generated by a complex series of morphogenetic movements. To better understand brain development and to provide a guide for experimental manipulation of brain progenitors, we created a fate map using photoactivated gene expression to mark cells originating within specific mitotic domains and ti...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Robertson K,Mergliano J,Minden JS

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anterior-posterior gut pattern is formed from three broad domains: fore-, mid-, and hindgut that have distinct functional, morphological, and molecular boundaries. The stomach demarcates the posterior boundary of the foregut. Avian stomachs are composed of two chambers: the anterior chamber (proventriculus) and th...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Nielsen C,Murtaugh LC,Chyung JC,Lassar A,Roberts DJ

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increase in the incidence of aneuploidy is well documented with increasing maternal age, in particular in human females. Remarkably, little is known regarding the underlying molecular basis for the age-associated increase in aneuploidy, which is a major source of decreased fertility in humans. Using mouse as a mode...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Pan H,Ma P,Zhu W,Schultz RM

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The unc-52 gene of Claenorhabditis elegans encodes a homologue of the basement membrane heparan sulfate proteoglycan perlecan. Viable alleles reduce the abundance of UNC-52 in late larval stages and increase the frequency of distal tip cell (DTC) migration defects caused by mutations disrupting the UNC-6/netrin guidan...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Merz DC,Alves G,Kawano T,Zheng H,Culotti JG

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomineralization, the biologically controlled formation of mineral deposits, is of widespread importance in biology, medicine, and engineering. Mineralized structures are found in most metazoan phyla and often have supportive, protective, or feeding functions. Among deuterostomes, only echinoderms and vertebrates pro...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Livingston BT,Killian CE,Wilt F,Cameron A,Landrum MJ,Ermolaeva O,Sapojnikov V,Maglott DR,Buchanan AM,Ettensohn CA

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear receptor SpCOUP-TF is the highly conserved sea urchin homologue of the COUP family of transcription factors. Previous results from our laboratory demonstrated that SpCOUP-TF transcripts are localized in the egg and asymmetrically distributed in the early embryonic blastomeres (A. Vlahou et al., 1996, Devel...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Vlahou A,Flytzanis CN

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Urodeles begin gastrulation with much of their presumptive mesoderm in the superficial cell layer, all of which must move into the deep layers during development. We studied the morphogenesis of superficial mesoderm in the urodeles Ambystoma maculatum, Ambystoma mexicanum, and Taricha granulosa. In all three species, ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Shook DR,Majer C,Keller R

更新日期：2002-08-15 00:00:00