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Role of Bone morphogenetic protein 4 in zebrafish semicircular canal development.
Development, growth & differentiation - 1 Dec 2007
Omata Yasuhiro, Nojima Yasuhiro, Nakayama Satomi, Okamoto Hitoshi, Nakamura Harukazu, Funahashi Jun-ichi
Abstract excerpt
Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are known to play roles in inner ear development of higher vertebrates. In zebrafish, there are several reports showing that members of the BMP family are expressed in the otic vesicle. We have isolated a novel zebrafish mutant gallery, which affects the development of the semicircular canal. Gallery merely forms the lateral and the immature anterior protrusion, and does not...
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