PUBLICATION
Sonic hedgehog is required early in pancreatic islet development
- Authors
- diIorio, P.J., Moss, J.B., Sbrogna, J.L., Karlstrom, R.O., and Moss, L.G.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-020402-4
- Date
- 2002
- Source
- Developmental Biology 244(1): 75-84 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- diIorio, Philip, Karlstrom, Rolf, Moss, Jennifer Barnett, Moss, Larry Gene, Sbrogna, Jen
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Embryonic Induction
- Gastrula/drug effects
- Gastrula/physiology*
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental*
- Green Fluorescent Proteins
- Hedgehog Proteins
- In Situ Hybridization
- Islets of Langerhans/embryology*
- Luminescent Proteins/genetics
- Mutation
- Pancreas/embryology
- Signal Transduction/drug effects
- Signal Transduction/genetics
- Trans-Activators/genetics*
- Veratrum Alkaloids/pharmacology
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- PubMed
- 11900460 Full text @ Dev. Biol.
Citation
diIorio, P.J., Moss, J.B., Sbrogna, J.L., Karlstrom, R.O., and Moss, L.G. (2002) Sonic hedgehog is required early in pancreatic islet development. Developmental Biology. 244(1):75-84.
Abstract
Pancreatic organogenesis relies on a complex interplay of cell-autonomous and extracellular signals. We demonstrate that the morphogen sonic hedgehog (Shh) is required for pancreatic development in zebrafish. Genetic mutants of Shh and its signaling pathway establish this dependence as specific to endocrine, but not exocrine, pancreas. Using cyclopamine to inhibit hedgehog signaling, we show that transient Shh signaling is necessary during gastrulation for subsequent differentiation of endoderm into islet tissue. A second hedgehog-dependent activity occurring later in development was also identified and may be analogous to the known action of Shh in gut endoderm to direct localization of pancreatic development. The early action of Shh may be part of a more general process allowing neuroendocrine cells to originate in nonneuroectodermally derived tissues.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping