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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-2-16
pubmed:abstractText
The purpose of this study was to make an explicit test of the idea that a retinoid could act as a morphogen, differentially activating genes and specifying anteroposterior (a-p) level in the developing vertebrate central nervous system (CNS). Our approach was to characterize the concentration-dependent effects of retinoic acid (RA) on the neural expression of a set of a-p patterning genes, both in vivo and in an in vitro system for neural patterning. Our results indicate that a retinoid is unlikely to specify a-p level along the entire CNS. Instead, our data support the idea that the developing hindbrain may be patterned by a retinoid gradient. Sequentially more posterior hindbrain patterning genes were induced effectively by sequentially higher RA concentration windows. The most posterior CNS level induced under our RA treatment conditions corresponded to the most posterior part of the hindbrain.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1058-8388
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
213
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
39-49
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Graded retinoid responses in the developing hindbrain.
pubmed:affiliation
Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology, Utrecht.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't