tretinoin and diazo-2

tretinoin has been researched along with diazo-2* in 1 studies

Other Studies

1 other study(ies) available for tretinoin and diazo-2

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An increase in intracellular Ca2+ is involved in pronephric tubule differentiation in the amphibian Xenopus laevis.
    Developmental biology, 2008, Sep-15, Volume: 321, Issue:2

    The pronephros is the first kidney to develop and is the functional embryonic kidney in lower vertebrates. It has previously been shown that pronephric tubules can be induced to form ex vivo in ectodermal tissue by treatment with activin A and retinoic acid. In this study, we investigated the role of Ca(2+) signaling in the formation of the pronephric tubules both in intact Xenopus embryos and ex vivo. In the ex vivo system, retinoic acid but not activin A stimulated the generation of Ca(2+) transients during tubule formation. Furthermore, tubule differentiation could be induced by agents that increase the concentration of intracellular Ca(2+) in activin A-treated ectoderm. In addition, tubule formation was inhibited by loading the ectodermal tissue with the Ca(2+) chelator, BAPTA-AM prior to activin A/retinoic acid treatment. In intact embryos, Ca(2+) transients were also recorded during tubule formation, and photo-activation of the caged Ca(2+) chelator, diazo-2, localized to the pronephric domain, produced embryos with a shortened and widened tubule phenotype. In addition, the location of the Ca(2+) transients observed, correlated with the expression pattern of the specific pronephric tubule gene, XSMP-30. These data indicate that Ca(2+) might be a necessary signal in the process of tubulogenesis both ex vivo and in intact embryos.

    Topics: Activins; Animals; Calcium; Cell Differentiation; Chelating Agents; Diazonium Compounds; DNA Primers; Immunohistochemistry; In Situ Hybridization; Kidney Tubules; Microdissection; Phenoxyacetates; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; Signal Transduction; Tretinoin; Xenopus laevis

2008