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BMC Developmental Biology, Volume 6

 

 

 

Research article
Xenopus Dab2 is required for embryonic angiogenesis
Seong-Moon Cheong, Sun-Cheol Choi, Jin-Kwan Han
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:63 (19December2006)
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Research article
The level of BMP4 signaling is critical for the regulation of distinct T-box gene expression domains and growth along the dorso-ventral axis of the optic cup
Hourinaz Behesti, James KL Holt, Jane C Sowden
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:62 (15December2006)
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Research article
Implantation Serine Proteinases heterodimerize and are critical in hatching and implantation
Navneet Sharma, Shiying Liu, Lin Tang, Jackie Irwin, Guoliang Meng, Derrick E Rancourt
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:61 (11December2006)
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Research article
A role for Phospholipase D in Drosophila embryonic cellularization
Mary LaLonde, Hilde Janssens, Suyong Yun, Juan Crosby, Olga Redina, Virginie Olive, Yelena M Altshuller, Seok-Yong Choi, Guangwei Du, J Peter Gergen, Michael A Frohman
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:60 (7December2006)
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Research article
Zona pellucida from fertilised human oocytes induces a voltage-dependent calcium influx and the acrosome reaction in spermatozoa, but cannot be penetrated by sperm
Catherine Patrat, Jana Auer, Patricia Fauque, Roger L Leandri, Pierre Jouannet, Catherine Serres
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:59 (5December2006)
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Research article
Gelatinases, endonuclease and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor during development and regression of swine luteal tissue
Luciana Andrea Ribeiro, Maria Elena Turba, Augusta Zannoni, Maria Laura Bacci, Monica Forni
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:58 (30November2006)
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Research article
Selection for early and late adult emergence alters the rate of pre-adult development in Drosophila melanogaster
Shailesh Kumar, Koustubh M Vaze, Dhanya Kumar, Vijay K Sharma
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:57 (28November2006)
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Research article
Sensory defects in Necdin deficient mice result from a loss of sensory neurons correlated within an increase of developmental programmed cell death
David Andrieu, Hamid Meziane, Fabienne Marly, Corinne Angelats, Pierre-Alain Fernandez, Franoise Muscatelli
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:56 (20November2006)
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Methodology article
Temporal and spatial control of transgene expression using laser induction of the hsp70 promoter
Diane M Ramos, Firdous Kamal, Ernst A Wimmer, Alexander N Cartwright, Antnia Monteiro
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:55 (20November2006)
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Research article
Ultrastructural analysis of development of myocardium in calreticulin-deficient mice
Mira D Lozyk, Sylvia Papp, Xiaochu Zhang, Kimitoshi Nakamura, Marek Michalak, Michal Opas
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:54 (19November2006)
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Research article
Multiple enhancers contribute to spatial but not temporal complexity in the expression of the proneural gene, amos
Eimear E Holohan, Petra I zur Lage, Andrew P Jarman
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:53 (9November2006)
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Research article
Comparative insights into questions of lepidopteran wing pattern homology
Antnia Monteiro, Gary Glaser, Steven Stockslager, Nelleke Glansdorp, Diane Ramos
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:52 (7November2006)
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Research article
Defective ALK5 signaling in the neural crest leads to increased postmigratory neural crest cell apoptosis and severe outflow tract defects
Jikui Wang, Andre Nagy, Jonas Larsson, Marek Dudas, Henry M Sucov, Vesa Kaartinen
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:51 (1November2006)
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Research article
Differential regulation of the zebrafish orthopedia1 gene during fate determination of diencephalic neurons
Luca Del Giacco, Paolo Sordino, Anna Pistocchi, Nikos Andreakis, Raffaella Tarallo, Barbara Di Benedetto, Franco Cotelli
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:50 (30October2006)
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Research article
Functional role of aspartic proteinase cathepsin D in insect metamorphosis
Zhong Zheng Gui, Kwang Sik Lee, Bo Yeon Kim, Yong Soo Choi, Ya Dong Wei, Young Moo Choo, Pil Don Kang, Hyung Joo Yoon, Iksoo Kim, Yeon Ho Je, Sook Jae Seo, Sang Mong Lee, Xijie Guo, Hung Dae Sohn, Byung Rae Jin
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:49 (25October2006)
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Research article
A biphasic pattern of gene expression during mouse retina development
Samuel Shao-Min Zhang, Xuming Xu, Mu-Gen Liu, Hongyu Zhao, Marcelo Bento Soares, Colin J Barnstable, Xin-Yuan Fu
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:48 (17October2006)
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Research article
New insight into the role of phosphodiesterase 3A in porcine oocyte maturation
Maxime Sasseville, Nancy Ct, Christine Guillemette, Franois J Richard
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:47 (12October2006)
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Research article
Penetrance of eye defects in mice heterozygous for mutation of Gli3 is enhanced by heterozygous mutation of Pax6
Paulette A Zaki, J Martin Collinson, Junko Toraiwa, T Ian Simpson, David J Price, Jane C Quinn
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:46 (9October2006)
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Research article
Activated AKT/PKB signaling in C. elegans uncouples temporally distinct outputs of DAF-2/insulin-like signaling
Minaxi S Gami, Wendy B Iser, Keaton B Hanselman, Catherine A Wolkow
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:45 (4October2006)
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Research article
Differential expression of WNT4 in testicular and ovarian development in a marsupial
Hongshi Yu, Andrew J Pask, Geoffrey Shaw, Marilyn B Renfree
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:44 (3October2006)
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Research article
Eye and neural defects associated with loss of GDF6
Meredith L Hanel, Carmel Hensey
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:43 (29September2006)
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Research article
Cytomegalovirus-induced embryopathology: mouse submandibular salivary gland epithelial-mesenchymal ontogeny as a model
Michael Melnick, Edward S Mocarski, George Abichaker, Jing Huang, Tina Jaskoll
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:42 (7September2006)
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Research article
Role of chromosome stability and telomere length in the production of viable cell lines for somatic cell nuclear transfer
Gabriela F Mastromonaco, Steve D Perrault, Dean H Betts, W Allan King
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:41 (9August2006)
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Research article
Distinct differentiation characteristics of individual human embryonic stem cell lines
Milla Mikkola, Cia Olsson, Jaan Palgi, Jarkko Ustinov, Tiina Palomaki, Nina Horelli-Kuitunen, Sakari Knuutila, Karolina Lundin, Timo Otonkoski, Timo Tuuri
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:40 (8August2006)
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Research article
C. elegans feeding defective mutants have shorter body lengths and increased autophagy
Catarina Mrck, Marc Pilon
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:39 (3August2006)
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Research article
Rho-kinase regulates tissue morphogenesis via non-muscle myosin and LIM-kinase during Drosophila development
Valerie Verdier, Guang-Chao-Chen, Jeffrey Settleman
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:38 (1August2006)
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Research article
Increased large conductance calcium-activated potassium (BK) channel expression accompanied by STREX variant downregulation in the developing mouse CNS
Stephen H-F MacDonald, Peter Ruth, Hans-Guenther Knaus, Michael J Shipston
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:37 (27July2006)
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Research article
Molecular characterization of retinal stem cells and their niches in adult zebrafish
Pamela A Raymond, Linda K Barthel, Rebecca L Bernardos, John J Perkowski
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:36 (26July2006)
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Research article
Alterations in gene expression in T1 null lung: a model of deficient alveolar sac development
Guetchyn Millien, Avrum Spira, Anne Hinds, Junling Wang, Mary C Williams, Maria I Ramirez
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:35 (25July2006)
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Research article
Transcriptional repression and DNA hypermethylation of a small set of ES cell marker genes in male germline stem cells
Masanori Imamura, Kyoko Miura, Kumiko Iwabuchi, Tomoko Ichisaka, Masato Nakagawa, Jiyoung Lee, Mito Kanatsu-Shinohara, Takashi Shinohara, Shinya Yamanaka
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:34 (21July2006)
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Research article
The Hlx homeobox transcription factor is required early in enteric nervous system development
Michael D Bates, Dana T Dunagan, Lynn C Welch, Ajay Kaul, Richard P Harvey
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:33 (19July2006)
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Research article
Expression patterns of plexins and neuropilins are consistent with cooperative and separate functions during neural development
Olivier Mauti, Rejina Sadhu, Joelle Gemayel, Matthias Gesemann, Esther T Stoeckli
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:32 (17July2006)
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Research article
The contractile vacuole in Ca2+-regulation in Dictyostelium: its essential function for cAMP-induced Ca2+-influx
Dieter Malchow, Daniel F Lusche, Christina Schlatterer, Arturo De Lozanne, Annette Mller-Taubenberger
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:31 (20June2006)
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Research article
Targeted disruption of cubilin reveals essential developmental roles in the structure and function of endoderm and in somite formation
Brian T Smith, Jason C Mussell, Paul A Fleming, Jeremy L Barth, Demetri D Spyropoulos, Marion A Cooley, Christopher J Drake, W Scott Argraves
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:30 (20June2006)
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Methodology article
Assigning sex to pre-adult stalk-eyed flies using genital disc morphology and X chromosome zygosity
Martin Carr, Samuel Cotton, David W Rogers, Andrew Pomiankowski, Hazel Smith, Kevin Fowler
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:29 (16June2006)
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Research article
A zebrafish screen for craniofacial mutants identifies wdr68 as a highly conserved gene required for endothelin-1 expression
Robert M Nissen, Adam Amsterdam, Nancy Hopkins
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:28 (7June2006)
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Research article
Genomic analysis of Xenopus organizer function
Andrew L Hufton, Arunachalam Vinayagam, Sndor Suhai, Julie C Baker
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:27 (6June2006)
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Research article
MATER protein expression and intracellular localization throughout folliculogenesis and preimplantation embryo development in the bovine
Sophie Pennetier, Christine Perreau, Svetlana Uzbekova, Aurore Thlie, Bernadette Delaleu, Pascal Mermillod, Rozenn Dalbis-Tran
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:26 (6June2006)
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Research article
Positive autoregulation of the transcription factor Pax6 in response to increased levels of either of its major isoforms, Pax6 or Pax6(5a), in cultured cells
Jeni Pinson, T Ian Simpson, John O Mason, David J Price
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:25 (25May2006)
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Methodology article
In vitro culture of embryonic mouse intestinal epithelium: cell differentiation and introduction of reporter genes
Jonathan M Quinlan, Wei-Yuan Yu, Mark A Hornsey, David Tosh, Jonathan MW Slack
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:24 (25May2006)
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Research article
Cadherin2 (N-cadherin) plays an essential role in zebrafish cardiovascular development
Brian Bagatto, Jessie Francl, Bei Liu, Qin Liu
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:23 (23May2006)
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Research article
Expression of carbonic anhydrases IX and XII during mouse embryonic development
Heini Kallio, Silvia Pastorekova, Jaromir Pastorek, Abdul Waheed, William S Sly, Susanna Mannisto, Markku Heikinheimo, Seppo Parkkila
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:22 (23May2006)
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Methodology article
Functional conservation of Pax6 regulatory elements in humans and mice demonstrated with a novel transgenic reporter mouse
David A Tyas, T Ian Simpson, Catherine B Carr, Dirk A Kleinjan, Veronica van Heyningen, John O Mason, David J Price
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:21 (4May2006)
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Research article
Genome wide profiling of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), their derivatives and embryonal carcinoma cells to develop base profiles of U.S. Federal government approved hESC lines
Ying Liu, Soojung Shin, Xianmin Zeng, Ming Zhan, Rodolfo Gonzalez, Franz-Josef Mueller, Catherine M Schwartz, Haipeng Xue, Huai Li, Shawn C Baker, Eugene Chudin, David L Barker, Timothy K McDaniel, Steffen Oeser, Jeanne F Loring, Mark P Mattson, Mahendra S Rao
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:20 (3May2006)
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Methodology article
Generation of mice harbouring a conditional loss-of-function allele of Gata6
Chhinder P Sodhi, Jixuan Li, Stephen A Duncan
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:19 (12April2006)
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Research article
Expression profiles of cIRF6, cLHX6 and cLHX7 in the facial primordia suggest specific roles during primary palatogenesis
Belinda J Washbourne, Timothy C Cox
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:18 (24March2006)
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Methodology article
Long-term maintenance of in vitro cultured honeybee (Apis mellifera) embryonic cells
Monica Bergem, Kari Norberg, Randi M Aamodt
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:17 (17March2006)
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Research article
Notch signaling through Tramtrack bypasses the mitosis promoting activity of the JNK pathway in the mitotic-to-endocycle transition of Drosophila follicle cells
Katherine C Jordan, Valerie Schaeffer, Karin A Fischer, Elizabeth E Gray, Hannele Ruohola-Baker
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:16 (16March2006)
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Research article
Cloning and characterization of mr-s, a novel SAM domain protein, predominantly expressed in retinal photoreceptor cells
Tatsuya Inoue, Koji Terada, Akiko Furukawa, Chieko Koike, Yasuhiro Tamaki, Makoto Araie, Takahisa Furukawa
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:15 (16March2006)
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Research article
Optic cup and facial patterning defects in ocular ectoderm -catenin gain-of-function mice
Leigh-Anne D Miller, April N Smith, M Mark Taketo, Richard A Lang
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:14 (15March2006)
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Research article
laminin alpha 1 gene is essential for normal lens development in zebrafish
Natalya S Zinkevich, Dmitry V Bosenko, Brian A Link, Elena V Semina
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:13 (7March2006)
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Research article
Aberrant stalk development and breakdown of tip dominance in Dictyostelium cell lines with RNAi-silenced expression of calcineurin B
Katrina Boeckeler, Gilbert Tischendorf, Rupert Mutzel, Barbara Weissenmayer
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:12 (2March2006)
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Research article
Identification and targeted disruption of the mouse gene encoding ESG1 (PH34/ECAT2/DPPA5)
Hisayuki Amano, Ken Itakura, Masayoshi Maruyama, Tomoko Ichisaka, Masato Nakagawa, Shinya Yamanaka
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:11 (28February2006)
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Methodology article
High resolution ultrasound-guided microinjection for interventional studies of early embryonic and placental development in vivo in mice
John C Slevin, Lois Byers, Marina Gertsenstein, Dawei Qu, Junwu Mu, Nana Sunn, John CP Kingdom, Janet Rossant, S Lee Adamson
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:10 (27February2006)
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Research article
A high throughput messenger RNA differential display screen identifies discrete domains of gene expression and novel patterning processes along the developing neural tube
David Chambers, Ivor Mason
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:9 (24February2006)
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Research article
Notch activity opposes ras-induced differentiation during the second mitotic wave of the developing Drosophila eye
Lihui Yang, Nicholas E Baker
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:8 (21February2006)
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Research article
FGF9 can induce endochondral ossification in cranial mesenchyme
Venkatesh Govindarajan, Paul A Overbeek
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:7 (20February2006)
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Research article
Germ cell development in the Honeybee (Apis mellifera); Vasa and Nanos expression
Peter K Dearden
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:6 (17February2006)
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Zebrafish transgenic Enhancer TRAP line database (ZETRAP)
Benjamin GH Choo, Igor Kondrichin, Sergey Parinov, Alexander Emelyanov, William Go, Wei-chang Toh, Vladimir Korzh
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:5 (14February2006)
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Research article
Fetal intestinal fibroblasts respond to insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-II better than adult intestinal fibroblasts
Mark R Corkins, Michael J Fillenwarth
BMC Developmental Biology 2006, 6:4 (27January2006)
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Research article
m-Calpain is required for preimplantation embryonic development in mice
Previn Dutt, Dorothy E Croall, J Simon C Arthur, Teresa De Veyra, Karen Williams, John S Elce, Peter A Greer
BMC Developmental Biology 2006,