Amphibian Models of Development and Disease, Volume 145 in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series, highlights new advances in the field written by an international board of experts. New chapters in this release include Building a ciliated epithelium: Transcriptional regulation and radial intercalation of multiciliated cells, Biomechanics of Amphibian Morphogenesis, Planar cell polarity during neural tube closure, Xenopus neural crest and its relevance to human disease, Endoderm organogenesis, From egg to embryo in marsupial frogs, Evo-devo lessons from the analysis of Xenopus genomes, Transcriptional regulation during zygotic genome activation, Proteomics and metabolomics for cell lineage analysis in frog embryos, and more.
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"This volume will make a useful contribution to any life science research library." --Ryan Kerney, The Quarterly Review of Biology.
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Höhe: 229 mm
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978-0-12-816833-2 (9780128168332)
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Sergei Sokol is at Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA.
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Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, USA
Section I
From early development to morphogenesis and tissue patterning
1. Building a ciliated epithelium: Transcriptional regulation and radial intercalation of multiciliated cells
Caitlin Collins, Rosa Ventrella, and Brian J. Mitchell
2. Xenopus neural tube closure: A vertebrate model linking planar cell polarity to actomyosin contractions
Miho Matsuda and Sergei Y. Sokol
3. Modeling endoderm development and disease in Xenopus
Nicole A. Edwards and Aaron M. Zorn
4. From egg to embryo in marsupial frogs
Eugenia M. del Pino
Section II
Systems biology approaches in amphibians
5. LIM homeodomain proteins and associated partners: Then and now
Yuuri Yasuoka and Masanori Taira
6. Control of zygotic genome activation in Xenopus
Ira L. Blitz and Ken W.Y. Cho
7. Mass spectrometry based proteomics for developmental neurobiology in the amphibian Xenopus laevis
Aparna B. Baxi, Leena R. Pade, and Peter Nemes
Section III
Amphibian models for regeneration and disease
8. Salamanders: The molecular basis of tissue regeneration and its relevance to human disease
Claudia Marcela Arenas Gomez and Karen Echeverri
9. Xenopus as a platform for discovery of genes relevant to human disease
Valentyna Kostiuk and Mustafa K. Khokha
10. Xenopus, an emerging model for studying pathologies of the neural crest
Laura Medina-Cuadra and Anne H. Monsoro-Burq
