Research Project
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
By the Xenopus aggregation method, aggregate inducing cartilage tissues of maxillofacial region, which activin A-treated cells were mixed with untreated cells at a ratio of 1:5, and aggregate inducing notochord at a ratio of 1:1 were generated. when 1:5 and 1:1 aggregate were subjected to a microarray experiment using Xenopus DNA microarray chips representing over 8,000 unigenes, we identified 51 genes that are specifically up regulated in 1:5 aggregate. Of the 51, 9 genes have been linked to neural crest induction. Among them, we investigated any genes that haven't been involved in neural crest and revealed that syntenin and tamalin genes expressed in maxillofacial region of Xenopus.
All 2010 2009 Other
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