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AuthorsCitationAbstractTitleDelivery MethodOrganism
Shimizu T, Yamanaka Y, Nojima H, Yabe T, Hibi M, Hirano TMech Dev. 2002 Oct;118(1-2):125Dharma/Bozozok (Dha/Boz) is a homeodomain protein containing an Engrailed homology (Eh) 1 repress... A novel repressor-type homeobox gene, ved, is involved in dharma/bozozok-mediated dorsal organiz...Microinjectionzebrafish
Olesnicky Killian EC, Birkholz DA, Artinger KBDev Biol. 2009 Sep 1;333(1):161-72. Epub 2009 Jul 1Neural crest cells (NCCs) are a unique population of multipotent cells that migrate along defined... A role for chemokine signaling in neural crest cell migration and craniofacial developmentMicroinjectionzebrafish
Masumoto J, Zhou W, Chen FF, Su F, Kuwada JY, Hidaka E, Katsuyama T, Sagara J, Taniguchi S, Ngo-H...J Biol Chem. 2003 Feb 7;278(6):4268-76. Epub 2002 Dec 02.The pyrin domain was identified recently in multiple proteins that are associated with apoptosis ... Caspy: A Zebrafish caspase activated by ASC oligomerization required for pharyngeal Arch develop...Microinjectionzebrafish
Kawachi K, Masuyama N, Nishida EJ Biol Chem. 2003 Feb 14;278(7):5473-7. Epub 2002 Dec 04The fibroblast growth factor (FGF)/MAPK pathway plays an important role in early Xenopus developm... Essential role of the transcription factor Ets-2 in Xenopus early developmentMicroinjectionXenopus
Maves L, Jackman W, Kimmel CBDevelopment. 2002. 129(16):3825-3837The segmentation of the vertebrate hindbrain into rhombomeres is highly conserved, but how early ... FGF3 and FGF8 mediate a rhombomere 4 signaling activity in the zebrafish hindbrainMicroinjectionzebrafish
Qin G, Taylor M, Ning YY, Iversen P, Kobzik LAntisense Nucleic Acid Drug Dev 2000 Feb;10(1):11-6Morpholino antisense oligomers directed against the cytokine tumor necrosis factor (TNF-alpha) ca... In vivo evaluation of a morpholino antisense oligomer directed against tumor necrosis factor-alp...in vivo: intranasalBALB/c mice
Summerton J and Dwight WellerAntisense & Nucleic Acid Drug Development 1997 7:187-195Antisense promised major advances in treating a broad range of intractable diseases, but in recen... Morpholino Antisense Oligomers: Design, Preparation and Properties.
Agathon A, Thisse B, Thisse CGenesis. 2001 Jul;30(3):178-82No abstract available Morpholino knock-down of antivin1 and antivin2 upregulates nodal signalingMicroinjectionzebrafish
Lele Z, Bakkers J, Hammerschmidt M.Genesis. 2001 Jul;30(3):190-4No abstract available. Morpholino phenocopies of the swirl, snailhouse, somitabun, minifin, silberblick, and pipetail m...Microinjectionzebrafish
Nishi E, Prat A, Hospital V, Elenius K, Klagsbrun M.EMBO J 2001 Jul 2;20(13):3342-3350Heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor (HB-EGF), a mitogen and chemotactic fa... N-arginine dibasic convertase is a specific receptor for heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor ...Special Deliverycell culture: HaCaT keratinocytes
Shumay E, Song X, Wang HY, Malbon CCMol Biol Cell. 2002 Nov;13(11):3943-54Insulin stimulates a rapid phosphorylation and sequestration of the beta(2)-adrenergic receptor. ... pp60Src Mediates Insulin-stimulated Sequestration of the beta(2)-Adrenergic Receptor: Insulin St...Special Deliverycell culture: Human epidermoid carcinoma A431
Devi GRCurr Opin Mol Ther. 2002 Apr;4(2):138-48. Review.Prostate cancer, like most other solid tumors, represents a heterogeneous entity consisting of a ... Prostate cancer: status of current treatments and emerging antisense-based therapies
Parsons MJ, Campos I, Hirst EM, Stemple DLDevelopment 2002 Jul;129(14):3505-12Muscular dystrophy is frequently caused by disruption of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex (DGC... Removal of dystroglycan causes severe muscular dystrophy in zebrafish embryos.Microinjectionzebrafish
Sugiyama S, Nakamura HDevelopment. 2003 Feb 1;130(3):451-462Mature chick optic tecta consist of 16 laminae and receive retinal fiber projections in a precise... The role of Grg4 in tectal laminar formationElectroporationchick embryo
Topczewska JM, Topczewski J, Shostak A, Kume T, Solnica-Krezel L, Hogan BL.Genes Dev. 2001 Sep 15;15(18):2483-93Previous studies identified zebrafish foxc1a and foxc1b as homologs of the mouse forkhead gene, F... The winged helix transcription factor Foxc1a is essential for somitogenesis in zebrafishMicroinjectionzebrafish
Stalmans I, Lambrechts D, De Smet F, Jansen S, Wang J, Maity S, Kneer P, Von Der Ohe M, Swillen A...Nat Med. 2003 Feb;9(2):173-82 Hemizygous deletion of chromosome 22q11 (del22q11) causes thymic, parathyroid, craniofacial an... VEGF: A modifier of the del22q11 (DiGeorge) syndrome?Microinjectionzebrafish
Tran HT, Sekkali B, Van Imschoot G, Janssens S, Vleminckx KProc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Aug 30. [Epub ahead of print]The formation of primitive (embryonic) blood in vertebrates is mediated by spatio-temporally rest... Wnt/beta-catenin signaling is involved in the induction and maintenance of primitive hematopoies...Xenopus
Frazzetto G, Klingbeil P, Bouwmeester TMech Dev. 2002 Apr;113(1):3-14Gastrulation in vertebrates is a highly dynamic process driven by convergent extension movements ... Xenopus marginal coil (Xmc), a novel FGF inducible cytosolic coiled-coil protein regulating gast...MicroinjectionXenopus laevis
Dibner C, Elias S, Frank DDevelopment. 2001 Sep;128(18):3415-26Meis-family homeobox proteins have been shown to regulate cell fate specification in vertebrate a... XMeis3 protein activity is required for proper hindbrain patterning in Xenopus laevis embryosMicroinjectionXenopus
Hunter MP, Prince VEDev Biol. 2002 Jul 15;247(2):367-389The pharyngeal arches are one of the defining features of the vertebrates, with the first arch fo... Zebrafish Hox Paralogue Group 2 Genes Function Redundantly as Selector Genes to Pattern the Seco...Microinjectionzebrafish
Muraoka ONippon Yakurigaku Zasshi. 2002 Aug;120(2):96-100. Japanese.The technology for the control of gene function is necessary not only to study development, but a... [The new technology for controlling gene function in zebrafish]not applicablenot applicable
Luo KL, Luo JH, Yu YPCancer Sci. 2009. [Epub ahead of print](-)-Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) is one of the major polyphenol components in green tea. It ...(-)-Epigallocatechin-3-gallate induces Du145 prostate cancer cell death via downregulation of inh...cell culture: human prostate cancer cell line Du145
Sumanas S, Zhang B, Dai R, Lin SDev Biol. 2005 Jul 1;283(1):85-96.A novel zebrafish gene bloody fingers (blf) encoding a 478 amino acid protein containing fifteen ...15-Zinc finger protein Bloody Fingers is required for zebrafish morphogenetic movements during ne...Microinjectionzebrafish
Carney SA, Peterson RE, Heideman WMol Pharmacol. 2004 Sep;66(3):512-21The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor that dimerizes wit...2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin Activation of the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor/Aryl Hydrocarbon ...Microinjectionzebrafish
Bello SM, Heideman W, Peterson REToxicol Sci. 2004 Apr;78(2):258-66.A role for the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) pathway in vascular maturation has been implicated...2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin Inhibits Regression of the Common Cardinal Vein in Developing...Microinjectionzebrafish
Planchart A, Mattingly CJChem Res Toxicol. 2010 Jan 7. [Epub ahead of print]Vertebrate jaw development can be disrupted by exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (T...2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin Upregulates FoxQ1b in Zebrafish Jaw Primordiumzebrafish
De Lucchini S, Ori M, Cremisi F, Nardini M, Nardi IMol Cell Neurosci. 2005 Jun;29(2):299-312In this paper, we show that serotonin, via 5-HT2B receptor, is involved in Xenopus retinal histog...5-HT2B-mediated serotonin signaling is required for eye morphogenesis in XenopusMicroinjectionXenopus
Jost JP, Oakeley EJ, Zhu B, Benjamin D, Thiry S, Siegmann M, Jost YCNucleic Acis Res 2001 Nov 1 29(21):4452-4461Changes in gene expression during mouse myoblast differentiation were monitored by DNA microarray...5-Methycytosine DNA glycosylase participates in the genome-wide loss of DNA methylation occurring...Special Deliverycell culture: mouse G8 myoblasts
Barboric M, Lenasi T, Chen H, Johansen EB, Guo S, Peterlin BMProc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Apr 27. [Epub ahead of print]Eukaryotic gene expression is commonly controlled at the level of RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) paus...7SK snRNP/P-TEFb couples transcription elongation with alternative splicing and is essential for ...zebrafish
Machingo QJ, Fritz A, Shur BDDevelopment. 2006 Jun;133(11):2233-41. Epub 2006 May 3.Complex carbohydrates are highly polymorphic macromolecules that are involved in diverse biologic...A beta1,4-galactosyltransferase is required for Bmp2-dependent patterning of the dorsoventral axi...Microinjectionzebrafish
Machingo QJ, Fritz A, Shur BDDev Biol. 2006 Sep 15;297(2):471-82. Epub 2006 May 27Our understanding of how complex carbohydrates function during embryonic development is still ver...A beta1,4-galactosyltransferase is required for convergent extension movements in zebrafishMicroinjectionzebrafish
Liu J, Fraser SD, Faloon PW, Rollins EL, Vom Berg J, Starovic-Subota O, Laliberte AL, Chen JN, Se...Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Aug 28;104(35):13990-5. Epub 2007 Jun 15The vasculature tailors to the needs of different tissues and organs. Molecular, structural, and ...A betaPix-Pak2a signaling pathway regulates cerebral vascular stability in zebrafishzebrafish
Tokuoka M, Satoh N, Satou YDev Biol. 2005 Dec 15;288(2):387-96. Epub 2005 Nov 11.Ascidian larval mesenchyme cells, comprising about 900 cells, are derived from the A7.6, B8.5 and...A bHLH transcription factor gene, Twist-like1, is essential for the formation of mesodermal tissu...MicroinjectionCiona savignyi
Seguchi O, Takashima S, Yamazaki S, Asakura M, Asano Y, Shintani Y, Wakeno M, Minamino T, Kondo H...J Clin Invest. 2007 Oct;117(10):2812-24.Marked sarcomere disorganization is a well-documented characteristic of cardiomyocytes in the fai...A cardiac myosin light chain kinase regulates sarcomere assembly in the vertebrate heartzebrafish
Topp JD, Jackson J, Melton AA, Lynch KWRNA. 2008 Aug 21. [Epub ahead of print]The human CD45 gene encodes a protein-tyrosine phosphatase that exhibits differential isoform exp...A cell-based screen for splicing regulators identifies hnRNP LL as a distinct signal-induced repr...Electroporationcell culture: human JSL1 T-cell line
Horne-Badovinac S, Rebagliati M, Stainier DYScience. 2003 Oct 24;302(5645):662-5Many vertebrate organs adopt asymmetric positions with respect to the midline, but little is know...A cellular framework for gut-looping morphogenesis in zebrafishMicroinjectionzebrafish
Zoeller JJ, McQuillan A, Whitelock J, Ho SY, Iozzo RVJ Cell Biol. 2008 Apr 21;181(2):381-94Perlecan's developmental functions are difficult to dissect in placental animals because perlecan...A central function for perlecan in skeletal muscle and cardiovascular developmentzebrafish
Zoeller JJ, Pimtong W, Corby H, Goldoni S, Iozzo AE, Owens RT, Ho SY, Iozzo RVJ Biol Chem. 2009 Feb 10. [Epub ahead of print]Decorin, an archetypal member of the small leucine-rich proteoglycan gene family, regulates colla...A central role for decorin during vertebrate convergent extensionzebrafish
Zhang Y, Yeh JR, Mara A, Ju R, Hines JF, Cirone P, Griesbach HL, Schneider I, Slusarski DC, Holle...Chem Biol. 2006 Sep;13(9):1001-9Previous mode of action studies identified methionine aminopeptidase 2 (MetAP-2) as the target of...A chemical and genetic approach to the mode of action of fumagillinMicroinjectionzebrafish
Tomlinson ML, Guan P, Morris RJ, Fidock MD, Rejzek M, Garcia-Morales C, Field RA, Wheeler GNChem Biol. 2009 Jan 30;16(1):93-104To dissect the function of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) involved in cellular migration in viv...A chemical genomic approach identifies matrix metalloproteinases as playing an essential and spec...Xenopus laevis
Rothbächer U, Bertrand V, Lamy C, Lemaire PDevelopment. 2007 Nov;134(22):4023-32Our understanding of the maternal factors that initiate early chordate development, and of their ...A combinatorial code of maternal GATA, Ets and beta-catenin-TCF transcription factors specifies a...Ciona intestinalis
Khanna H, Davis EE, Murga-Zamalloa CA, Estrada-Cuzcano A, Lopez I, den Hollander AI, Zonneveld M...Nat Genet. 2009 Jun;41(6):739-45. Epub 2009 May 10Despite rapid advances in the identification of genes involved in disease, the predictive power o...A common allele in RPGRIP1L is a modifier of retinal degeneration in ciliopathiesMicroinjectionzebrafish
He J, Liu G, Zhang S, Vanderheyden JL, Liu N, Liu C, Zhang Y, Gupta S, Rusckowski M, Hnatowich DJBioconjug Chem. 2003 Sep-Oct;14(5):1018-23The stability of hybridized duplexes is an important criterion for any radiopharmaceutical applic...A comparison of in vitro and in vivo stability in mice of two morpholino duplexes differing in ch...in vivo: injectionmale CD-1 mice
Vasil ML, Stonehouse MJ, Vasil AI, Wadsworth SJ, Goldfine H, Bolcome RE 3rd, Chan JPLoS Pathog. 2009 May;5(5):e1000420. Epub 2009 May 8The hemolytic phospholipase C (PlcHR) expressed by Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the original member ...A complex extracellular sphingomyelinase of Pseudomonas aeruginosa inhibits angiogenesis by selec...zebrafish
Kato Y, Habas R, Katsuyama Y, Naar AM, He XNature. 2002 Aug 8;418(6898):641-6The transforming growth factor beta (TGF beta) family of cytokines, including Nodal, Activin and ...A component of the ARC/Mediator complex required for TGF beta/Nodal signallingMicroinjectionXenopus laevis
Swiers G, Chen YH, Johnson AD, Loose MDev Biol. 2010 Apr 13. [Epub ahead of print]Understanding how mesoderm is specified during development is a fundamental issue in biology, and...A conserved mechanism for vertebrate mesoderm specification in urodele amphibians and mammalsMicroinjectionAxolotl
Srinivas BP, Woo J, Leong WY, Roy SNat Genet. 2007 Jun;39(6):781-6. Epub 2007 May 27Skeletal muscles arise by fusion of precursor cells, myoblasts, into multinucleated fibers. In ve...A conserved molecular pathway mediates myoblast fusion in insects and vertebrateszebrafish
Tang J, Hu G, Hanai JI, Yadlapalli G, Lin Y, Zhang B, Galloway J, Bahary N, Sinha S, Thisse B, Th...J Biol Chem. 2006 Mar 10;281(10):6664-72. Epub 2005 Nov 28.Calponin 2 (h2 calponin, CNN2) is an actin-binding protein implicated in cytoskeletal organizatio...A critical role for calponin 2 in vascular developmentMicroinjectionzebrafish
Vlecken DH, Testerink J, Ott EB, Sakalis PA, Jaspers RT, Bagowski CPInt J Dev Biol. 2009 Apr 2. [Epub ahead of print]The globin family, including hemoglobin, myoglobin, neuroglobin and cytoglobin, plays an importan...A critical role for myoglobin in zebrafish developmentzebrafish
Dickmeis T, Mourrain P, Saint-Etienne L, Fischer N, Aanstad P, Clark M, Strahle U, Rosa FGenes Dev. 2001 Jun 15;15(12):1487-92casanova (cas) mutant zebrafish embryos lack endoderm and develop cardia bifida. In a substractiv...A crucial component of the endoderm formation pathway, CASANOVA, is encoded by a novel sox-relate...Microinjectionzebrafish

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