PUBLICATION
Pattern formation: swimming in retinoic acid
- Authors
- Yelon, D. and Stainier, D.Y.R.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-021105-15
- Date
- 2002
- Source
- Current biology : CB 12(2): R707-709 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Stainier, Didier, Yelon, Deborah
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Body Patterning/physiology*
- Locomotion
- Animals
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Endoderm/physiology*
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/physiology
- Swimming
- Tretinoin/physiology*
- PubMed
- 12401191 Full text @ Curr. Biol.
Citation
Yelon, D. and Stainier, D.Y.R. (2002) Pattern formation: swimming in retinoic acid. Current biology : CB. 12(2):R707-709.
Abstract
The metabolite retinoic acid has been implicated as a key player during anterior-posterior patterning in vertebrate embryos. Recent studies in zebrafish extend this model by demonstrating the influence of retinoic acid on endoderm regionalization.
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