Sentences with phrase «zebrafish embryonic development»
When Kaufman, Zon and colleagues looked to see what was different about these early cancer cells, they found that crestin and the other activated genes are the same ones turned on during zebrafish embryonic development — specifically, in the stem cells that give rise to the pigment cells known as melanocytes, within a structure called the neural crest.
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«BPA and BPS (substitute for BPA) affect embryonic brain development in zebrafish: Low levels of chemicals linked to hyperactivity.»
In the initial stages of the research project, Yaniv's team members Julian Nicenboim and Dr. Guy Malkinson obtained images of developing zebrafish embryos, whose transparent bodies make it possible to document embryonic development in real time over several days.
In experiments on zebrafish, Freiburg researchers have demonstrated that the same proteins that lead to the formation of metastases in humans also cause the cells to migrate during embryonic development.
«Thus, we hypothesize that Gdf3 combines with Ndr1 and Ndr2 to facilitate Nodal signaling during zebrafish development, acting as an essential factor in embryonic patterning,» said Pelliccia, a graduate student in molecular biology.
Using the CAGE (Cap Analysis of Gene Expression) high - throughput method, the scientists determined the starting points of transcription of many thousands of genes in various phases of embryonic development of zebrafish.
The zebrafish is used as a model organism for research into the embryonic development of vertebrates.
Zebrafish also express this gene, and the study showed that it plays a crucial role in embryonic development.
Identification and Expression Analysis of Zebrafish Glypicans during Embryonic Development.
«Discovery of a gene that could convert human embryonic stem cells into myocardial cells would be golden,» said Didier Stainier, PhD, UCSF assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics, the senior author of the UCSF study and a pioneer in the study of heart development in the transparent zebrafish embryo.
In this study, the team delved deep into the nucleus of cells belonging to mouse and zebrafish embryos — two important animal models of embryonic development — in order to determine how the Dll4 gene is turned on.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Whitehead Institute scientists have identified conserved, long intervening non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) that play key roles during embryonic brain development in zebrafish.
Now researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified an essential cellular pathway in zebrafish that paves the way for limb regeneration by unlocking gene expression patterns last seen during embryonic development.