For the digestion of food, it is important for the gut to be differentiated regionally and to have proper motor control. However, the number of transcription factors that regulate its development is still limited. Meanwhile, the interstitial cells...
Zebrafish larval gut could be considered as an excellent model to study functions of vertebrate digestive organs, by virtue of its simplicity and transparency as well as the availability of mutants. However, there has been scant investigation of t...
Maria Ohno   Masataka Nikaido   Natsumi Horiuchi   Koichi Kawakami   Kohei Hatta   
Development (Cambridge) 148(2) 195339-- 2021年1月 [査読有り]
The enteric nervous system (ENS), which is derived from neural crest, is essential for gut function, and its deficiency causes severe congenital diseases. Since the capacity for ENS regeneration in mammals is limited, additional complementary mode...
BACKGROUND: The enteric nervous system (ENS) is derived from enteric neural crest cells (ENCCs) that migrate into the gut. The zebrafish larva is a good model to study ENCC development due to its simplicity and transparency. However, little is kno...
The enteric nervous system (ENS) is the largest part of the peripheral nervous system in vertebrates. Toward the visualization of the development of the vertebrate ENS, we report our creation of a new transgenic line, Tg(chata:GGFF2) which has a 1...