PKA-mediated Gli2 and Gli3 phosphorylation is inhibited by Hedgehog signaling in cilia and reduced in Talpid3 mutant.

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：:The inactivation of the prolactin receptor gene by homologous recombination has made it possible to investigate the role of prolactin signaling in mammary gland development without resort to ablative surgery of the endocrine glands. In knockout mice lacking the prolactin receptor, mammary development is normal up to p...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Brisken C,Kaur S,Chavarria TE,Binart N,Sutherland RL,Weinberg RA,Kelly PA,Ormandy CJ

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined expression and function of a cell membrane protein in the developing chick retinotectal system identified by a monoclonal antibody (mAb 4H5) and the corresponding antiserum. Our data revealed that the protein shares a series of properties, including the N-terminal amino acid sequence, with a cell adhesio...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Pollerberg GE,Mack TG

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to disclose the mechanism that regulate synapse development we compared the distributions of agrin, acetylcholine receptors (AChR) and a basal lamina heparan sulfate proteoglycan (HSPG) in sections and cultures prepared from Xenopus laevis and Ambystoma mexicanum embryos. While agrin, AChR and HSPG may accumu...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Anderson MJ,Shi ZQ,Grawel R,Zackson SL

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：:The midbrain-hindbrain boundary (MHB) acts as a local organizer in the development of the CNS in vertebrates. Previously, we identified an MHB-specific bHLH-WRPW transcriptional repressor gene, Xenopus Hes-related 1 (XHR1), which is initially expressed in the presumptive MHB (pre-MHB) region at the early gastrula stag...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Takada H,Hattori D,Kitayama A,Ueno N,Taira M

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:During early heart development the expression pattern of N-cadherin, a calcium-dependent cell adhesion molecule, suggests its involvement in morphoregulation and the stabilization of cardiomyocyte differentiation. N-cadherin's adhesive activity is dependent upon its interaction with the intracellular catenins. An asso...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Linask KK,Knudsen KA,Gui YH

更新日期：1997-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The stromal microenvironment regulates mammary gland branching morphogenesis. We have observed that mast cells are present in the mammary gland throughout its postnatal development and, in particular, are found around the terminal end buds and ductal epithelium of the pubertal gland. Mast cells contribute to allergy, ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Lilla JN,Werb Z

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies from this laboratory have identified a novel alpha-D-mannosidase on the sperm plasma membranes of several species, including man, which may have a role in fertilization. The polyclonal antibody raised against an isoform of the enzyme purified from rat epididymal fluid was found to cross-react with the...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Tulsiani DR,NagDas SK,Skudlarek MD,Orgebin-Crist MC

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the pathway of 5S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) during oogenesis in Xenopus from its storage in the cytoplasm to incorporation into ribosomes in the nucleus. Ribonucleoprotein particle (RNP) assembly assays reveal striking differences in the behavior of oocyte-type and somatic-type 5S rRNA after microinjection into ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Allison LA,North MT,Neville LA

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapidly growing human teratocarcinoma cells (Tera-2) can be induced to differentiate into quiescent, nontumorigenic cells expressing neuronal markers. To more closely mimic the in vivo conditions for tumor growth, we grew Tera-2 cells in three-dimensional collagen gel cultures. The undifferentiated cells proliferated ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Alanko T,Tienari J,Lehtonen E,Saksela O

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila melanogaster ventral nerve cord derives from neural progenitor cells called neuroblasts. Individual neuroblasts have unique gene expression profiles and give rise to distinct clones of neurons and glia. The specification of neuroblast identity provides a cell intrinsic mechanism which ultimately results...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Buescher M,Tio M,Tear G,Overton PM,Brook WJ,Chia W

更新日期：2006-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The definitive feature of the many thousand cis-regulatory control modules in an animal genome is their information processing capability. These modules are "wired" together in large networks that control major processes such as development; they constitute "genomic computers." Each control module receives multiple in...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Istrail S,De-Leon SB,Davidson EH

更新日期：2007-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian kidney collecting ducts are critical for water, electrolyte and acid-base homeostasis and develop as a branched network of tubular structures composed of principal cells intermingled with intercalated cells. The intermingled nature of the different collecting duct cell types has made it challenging to id...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Grassmeyer J,Mukherjee M,deRiso J,Hettinger C,Bailey M,Sinha S,Visvader JE,Zhao H,Fogarty E,Surendran K

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative sizes of the various structures in Hydra attenuata were compared over a broad range of animal sizes to determine in detail the ability to regulate proportions during regeneration. The three components of the head, namely hypostome, tentacles, and tentacle zone from which the tentacles emerge, the body col...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Bode PM,Bode HR

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanos is a translational regulator required for the survival and maintenance of primordial germ cells during embryogenesis. Three nanos homologs are present in the genome of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (Sp), and each nanos mRNA accumulates specifically in the small micromere (sMic) lineage. We found t...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Oulhen N,Yoshida T,Yajima M,Song JL,Sakuma T,Sakamoto N,Yamamoto T,Wessel GM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lumenogenesis of small seamless tubes occurs through intracellular membrane growth and directed vesicle fusion events. Within the Caenorhabditis elegans excretory cell, which forms seamless intracellular tubes (canals) that mediate osmoregulation, lumens grow in length and diameter when vesicles fuse with the expandin...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Armenti ST,Chan E,Nance J

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific binding of spermatozoa to the zona pellucida that surrounds mammalian eggs is a key step in the fertilization process. However, the sperm proteins that recognise zona pellucida receptors remain contentious despite longstanding research efforts to identify them. Here we present evidence that proacrosin, a tiss...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Gaboriau D,Howes EA,Clark J,Jones R

更新日期：2007-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The outgrowth of motor axons to the developing pectoral fin of the Japanese medaka fish (Oryzias latipes) was investigated both in wildtype embryos and in the pectoral finless (pl) mutants in which adults are missing pectoral fins. Late in embryogenesis the pectoral fin is a simple limb which contains two antagonist m...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Okamoto H,Kuwada JY

更新日期：1991-07-01 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：:A large subset of mammalian imprinted genes show extra-embryonic lineage (EXEL) specific imprinted expression that is restricted to placental trophectoderm lineages and to visceral yolk sac endoderm (ysE). Isolated ysE provides a homogenous in vivo model of a mid-gestation extra-embryonic tissue to examine the mechani...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Kulinski TM,Casari MR,Guenzl PM,Wenzel D,Andergassen D,Hladik A,Datlinger P,Farlik M,Theussl HC,Penninger JM,Knapp S,Bock C,Barlow DP,Hudson QJ

更新日期：2015-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin structure plays an important role in the regulation of gene expression. Methylation of lysine residues on histone tails is an epigenetic mark that influences chromatin repression when specifically imparted on lysines 9 and 27 of histone H3, and on lysine 20 of H4. Histone lysines can be mono-, di-, and trime...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Payne C,Braun RE

更新日期：2006-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The corepressor SMRT acts on a range of transcription factors, including the retinoid and thyroid hormone nuclear receptors. The carboxy-terminal region of SMRT contains CoRNR box motifs that mediate these interactions. We have shown, in Xenopus, that SMRT can exist as isoforms containing either two or three CoRNR box...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Malartre M,Short S,Sharpe C

更新日期：2006-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphibian embryos from the genus Xenopus are among the best species for understanding early vertebrate development and for studying basic cell biological processes. Xenopus, and in particular the diploid Xenopus tropicalis, is also ideal for functional genomics. Understanding the behavior of genes in this accessible m...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Gilchrist MJ,Zorn AM,Voigt J,Smith JC,Papalopulu N,Amaya E

更新日期：2004-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of cardiac troponin I (TnIcardiac) and slow skeletal troponin I (TnIslow) genes was analyzed at the mRNA and protein level in the developing rat heart. TnIslow mRNA was detectable by in situ hybridization in the embryonic cardiac tube as early as the 13-somite stage (Embryonic Day 10). In contrast, TnIcardi...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Gorza L,Ausoni S,Merciai N,Hastings KE,Schiaffino S

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ectoderm of early Xenopus gastrula is competent to become induced to neural tissue, but dorsal ectoderm is more neural competent than ventral ectoderm. It is a tenable, but as yet untested possibility that the higher neural competence of dorsal gastrula ectoderm is dependent on the presence of the dorsal mesoderm....

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Otte AP,Moon RT

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of microtubules and microtubule organizing centers in the events leading up to the establishment of the first asymmetric cleavage furrow in nematode embryos was followed using indirect immunofluorescence of antibodies to tubulin. Oocytes arrest in meiotic prophase then undergo two meiotic reduction di...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Albertson DG

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal human hepatocytes were isolated by collagenase digestion of liver fragments and cultured either alone or mixed with rat liver epithelial cells. Whereas they did not survive more than 2-3 weeks and showed rapid morphologic and functional alterations in conventional culture, fetal hepatocytes survived and retained...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Guguen-Guillouzo C,Clement B,Lescoat G,Glaise D,Guillouzo A

更新日期：1984-09-01 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