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Anatomy |
tubb2b.L
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laevis
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NF stage 14
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brain
,
spinal cord
,
neuroectoderm
,
pre-chordal neural plate
,
chordal neural plate
,
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tubb2b.L
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laevis
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NF stage 25
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brain
,
forebrain
,
midbrain
,
hindbrain
,
spinal cord
,
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neurog2
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laevis
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NF stage 14
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brain
,
spinal cord
,
neuroectoderm
,
pre-chordal neural plate
,
chordal neural plate
,
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neurog2
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laevis
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NF stage 25
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brain
,
forebrain
,
midbrain
,
hindbrain
,
spinal cord
,
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nhlh1
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laevis
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NF stage 14
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neuroectoderm
,
pre-chordal neural plate
,
chordal neural plate
,
neural plate
,
optic field
,
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nhlh1
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laevis
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NF stage 25
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brain
,
forebrain
,
midbrain
,
hindbrain
,
spinal cord
,
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nhlh1
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laevis
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NF stage 35 and 36
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brain
,
mandibular crest
,
hyoid crest
,
eye
,
cranial neural crest
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nhlh1
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laevis
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NF stage 20
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spinal cord
,
neural tube
,
ventrolateral neural tube
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lmo1
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laevis
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NF stage 14
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pre-chordal neural plate
,
chordal neural plate
,
neural plate
,
Rohon-Beard neuron
,
neuron
,
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lmo1
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laevis
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NF stage 25
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brain
,
forebrain
,
midbrain
,
hindbrain
,
spinal cord
,
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lmo1
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laevis
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NF stage 35 and 36
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brain
,
forebrain
,
midbrain
,
hindbrain
,
spinal cord
,
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lmo1
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laevis
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NF stage 20
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somite
,
posterior neural tube
,
anterior neural tube
,
sclerotome
,
neural tube
,
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Fig. 4. Comparison of the expression
patterns of XHEN1, XLMO-3, XNGNR-
1 and N-tubulin. (A-J) Stage 14,
25 and 35 Xenopus embryos were
hybridized with probes for XLMO-3,
XHEN1, X-NGNR-1 and N-tubulin.
Embryos are shown in a dorsal (stage
14), dorsal-lateral (stage 25) or lateral
(stage 35) view, with anterior to the left.
At stage 14, XLMO-3 and XHEN1 are
expressed only in two domains which
will become interneurons (I) and
motoneurons (M) of spinal cord, while
X-NGNR-1 and N-tubulin are expressed
also in the domains which will form
sensory neurons (S) besides of these two
medial domains. At stage 25, the
expression patterns for all four probes
are very similar. At stage 35, XHEN1 is
only expressed in the brain region.
(K,L) Transverse sections of Xenopus
embryos hybridized with probes for
XHEN1 and XLMO-3 at stage 20. In the
neural tube, both of XHEN1 and
XLMO-3 are located in the ventral part
of spinal cord which is formed by
interneurons and motoneurons. |
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Fig. 7. Ectopic neurogenesis induced by XHEN1 and/or XLMO-3 mRNAs. (A) Ectopic
neurogenesis was visualized at stage 14 and stage 25 embryos by whole mount in situ
hybridization with an N-tubulin probe. Embryos were injected on one side (left side at the
bottom) with XLMO-3, XHEN1, XHEN1/XLMO-3 or X-NGNR-1. All embryos are shown
with anterior to the left. Only the injected half of stage 25 embryos is shown.
(B) Downregulation of neurogenesis by overexpression of XHEN1-WPRW. Ectopic
neurogenesis was visualized at stage 14 by N-tubulin staining. One cell of the 2-cell stage
embryos were injected with 500 pg of mRNA encoding for XHEN1-WRPW. The injected
half (bottom half) showed little N-tubulin expression (right panel) when compared to the
uninjected control (left panel). (C) Temporal Induction of N-CAM and N-tubulin in animal
caps by over-expression of XHEN1 and XLMO-3. EF-1a is a ubiquitously expressed
mRNA and serves as a control for RT-PCR and loading. |