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Retinoic acid-metabolizing enzyme Cyp26a1 is essential for determining territories of hindbrain and spinal cord in zebrafish.
Developmental biology - 15 Feb 2005
Emoto Yumi, Wada Hironori, Okamoto Hitoshi, Kudo Akira, Imai Yoshiyuki
Abstract excerpt
Retinoic acid (RA) plays a critical role in neural patterning and organogenesis in the vertebrate embryo. Here we characterize a mutant of the zebrafish named giraffe (gir) in which the gene for the RA-degrading enzyme Cyp26a1 is mutated. The gir mutant displayed patterning defects in multiple or...
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