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In-house Editor J. Ann Le Good
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BMC Developmental Biology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of cellular, tissue-level and organismal aspects of development.
BMC Developmental Biology (ISSN 1471-213X) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Zoological Record, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :53
Specific expression of the zebrafish PAX6b transcription factor, essential for pancreas development, is linked to two upstream enhancers in the PAX6b gene that are absent from its paralog Pax6a, which has no pancreatic expression.
BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :40
Phosphoinositide-3 kinase (PI3K) signaling is essential for C-type-natriuretic-peptide induced bone growth, but not that induced by IGF, as demonstrated by pharmacological inhibition of PI3K, in both limb bud culture and cultured tibial explants.
BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :30
Expression patterns of teneurin-1 and -2 in the developing chick brain illustrate both the complementary role of these transmembrane proteins in neural connectivity and their subsequent proteolysis, which results in the nuclear localization of the intracellular domain.
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Cold-inducible RNA binding protein (CIRP), a novel XTcf-3 specific target gene regulates neural development in Xenopus Stephanie van Venrooy, Dagmar Fichtner, Martin Kunz, Doris Wedlich, Dietmar Gradl BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :77 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Dynamic expression of Dab2 in the mouse embryonic central nervous system Kwok-Kuen Cheung, Samuel C Mok, Payam Rezaie, Wood-Yee Chan BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :76 (4 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Msx1 and Msx2 are required for endothelial-mesenchymal transformation of the atrioventricular cushions and patterning of the atrioventricular myocardium Yi-Hui Chen, Mamoru Ishii, Henry M Sucov, Robert E Maxson Jr BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :75 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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GATA4 and GATA5 are essential for heart and liver development in Xenopus embryos Kim E Haworth, Surendra Kotecha, Timothy J Mohun, Branko V Latinkic BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :74 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Effects of NGF, NT-3 and GDNF family members on neurite outgrowth and migration from pelvic ganglia from embryonic and newborn mice Ashley L Stewart, Richard B Anderson, Kazuto Kobayashi, Heather M Young BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :73 (25 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Cloning and expression of R-Spondin1 in different vertebrates suggests a conserved role in ovarian development. Craig A Smith, Christina M Shoemaker, Kelly N Roeszler, Joanna Queen, David P Crews, Andrew H Sinclair BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :72 (24 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The PPARgamma-selective ligand BRL-49653 differentially regulates the fate choices of rat calvaria versus rat bone marrow stromal cell populations Takuro Hasegawa, Kiyoshi Oizumi, Yuji Yoshiko, Kazuo Tanne, Norihiko Maeda, Jane E Aubin BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :71 (14 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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CFTR and Wnt/beta-catenin signaling in lung development J Craig Cohen, Janet E Larson, Erin Killeen, Damon Love, Ken-Ichi Takemaru BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :70 (6 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Reelin induces a radial glial phenotype in human neural progenitor cells by activation of Notch-1 Serene Keilani, Kiminobu Sugaya BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :69 (1 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Dumpy-30 family members as determinants of male fertility and interaction partners of metal-responsive transcription factor 1 (MTF-1) in Drosophila Alla Vardanyan, Lilit Atanesyan, Dieter Egli, Sunil Jayaramaiah Raja, Monica Steinmann-Zwicky, Renate Renkawitz-Pohl, Oleg Georgiev, Walter Schaffner BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :68 (27 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Ketamine analgesia for inflammatory pain in neonatal rats: a factorial randomized trial examining long-term effects Cynthia R. Rovnaghi, Sarita Garg, Richard W. Hall, Adnan T. Bhutta, K. j. s. Anand Behavioral and Brain Functions 2008, 4 :35 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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In vivo analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans noncoding RNA promoter motifs Tiantian Li, Housheng He, Yunfei Wang, Haixia Zheng, Geir Skogerbo, Runsheng Chen BMC Molecular Biology 2008, 9 :71 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The plant Apolipoprotein D ortholog protects Arabidopsis against oxidative stress Jean-Benoit F Charron, Francois Ouellet, Mario Houde, Fathey Sarhan BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8 :86 (31 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Effects of increased milking frequency on gene expression in the bovine mammary gland Erin E Connor, Stephen Siferd, Theodore H Elsasser, Christina M Evock-Clover, Curtis P Van Tassell, Tad S Sonstegard, Violet M Fernandes, Anthony V Capuco BMC Genomics 2008, 9 :362 (31 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Does codon bias have an evolutionary origin? Jan C Biro Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2008, 5 :16 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The Met receptor tyrosine kinase prevents zebrafish primary motoneurons from expressing an incorrect neurotransmitter Alexandra Tallafuss, Judith S Eisen Neural Development 2008, 3 :18 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Correlation between nucleotide composition and folding energy of coding sequences with special attention to wobble bases. Jan C Biro Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2008, 5 :14 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Spatial and temporal expression of the 23 murine Prolactin/Placental Lactogen-related genes is not associated with their position in the locus David G Simmons, Saara M Rawn, Alastair Davies, Martha Hughes, James C Cross BMC Genomics 2008, 9 :352 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Expression profiles of the pluripotency marker gene POU5F1 and validation of reference genes in rabbit oocytes and preimplantation stage embryos Solomon Mamo, Arpad Baji Gal, Zsuzsanna Polgar, Andras Dinnyes BMC Molecular Biology 2008, 9 :67 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Deciphering animal development through proteomics:
requirements and prospects
Wolfgang E Reintsch, Craig A Mandato Proteome Science 2008, 6 :21 (24 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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