Publications

2002

Gait M, and Mason I (2002) In Situ Hybridisation to RNA in Tissue Sections. In “Microscopy and Histology for Molecular Biologists”. Eds. J.Kiernan and I.Mason, Portland Press, London, UK.
Irving C, and Mason I (2002) In situ hybridisation and sectioning of whole embryos and tissues. In “Microscopy and Histology for Molecular Biologists”. Eds. J.Kiernan and I.Mason, Portland Press, London, UK.
Mason I (2002) Methods of Light Photomicroscopy. In “Microscopy and Histology for Molecular Biologists”. Eds. J.Kiernan and I.Mason, Portland Press, London, UK..
Formstone CJ, Little PF (2002) The flamingo-related mouse Celsr family (Celsr1-3) genes exhibit distinct patterns of expression during embryonic development. Mech Dev 109: 91-4
Begbie J, Graham A (2002) Integration between the epibranchial placodes and the hindbrain. Science 294: 595-8
Hunter E, Begbie J, Mason I, Graham A (2002) Early development of the mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus. Dev Dyn 222: 484-93
McGonnell IM, Graham A (2002) Trunk neural crest has skeletogenic potential. Curr Biol 12: 767-71
Begbie J, Graham A (2002) The ectodermal placodes: a dysfunctional family. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 356: 1655-60
Simeone A (2002) Towards the comprehension of genetic mechanisms controlling brain morphogenesis. Trends Neurosci 25: 119-21
Nikolic M (2002) The role of Rho GTPases and associated kinases in regulating neurite outgrowth. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 34: 731-45
Maden M (2002) Retinoid signalling in the development of the central nervous system. Nat Rev Neurosci 3: 843-53
Gavalas A (2002) ArRAnging the hindbrain. Trends Neurosci 25: 61-4
Knöll B, Drescher U (2002) Ephrin-As as receptors in topographic projections. Trends Neurosci 25: 145-9
Gilthorpe JD, Papantoniou EK, Chédotal A, Lumsden A, Wingate RJ (2002) The migration of cerebellar rhombic lip derivatives. Development 129: 4719-28
Yaneza M, Gilthorpe JD, Lumsden A, Tucker AS (2002) No evidence for ventrally migrating neural tube cells from the mid- and hindbrain. Dev Dyn 223: 163-7
Georgiou M, Tear G (2002) Commissureless is required both in commissural neurones and midline cells for axon guidance across the midline. Development 129: 2947-56
Myat A, Henry P, McCabe V, Flintoft L, Rotin D, Tear G (2002) Drosophila Nedd4, a ubiquitin ligase, is recruited by Commissureless to control cell surface levels of the roundabout receptor. Neuron 35: 447-59
Montalta-He H, Leemans R, Loop T, Strahm M, Certa U, Primig M, Acampora D, Simeone A, Reichert H (2002) Evolutionary conservation of otd/Otx2 transcription factor action: a genome-wide microarray analysis in Drosophila. Genome Biol 3: RESEARCH0015
Barbera JP, Rodriguez TA, Greene ND, Weninger WJ, Simeone A, Copp AJ, Beddington RS, Dunwoodie S (2002) Folic acid prevents exencephaly in Cited2 deficient mice. Hum Mol Genet 11: 283-93
Hakeda-Suzuki S, Ng J, Tzu J, Dietzl G, Sun Y, Harms M, Nardine T, Luo L, Dickson BJ (2002) Rac function and regulation during Drosophila development. Nature 416: 438-42
Ng J, Nardine T, Harms M, Tzu J, Goldstein A, Sun Y, Dietzl G, Dickson BJ, Luo L (2002) Rac GTPases control axon growth, guidance and branching. Nature 416: 442-7
Ford MJ, Burton LJ, Morris RJ, Hall SM (2002) Selective expression of prion protein in peripheral tissues of the adult mouse. Neuroscience 113: 177-92
Ford MJ, Burton LJ, Li H, Graham CH, Frobert Y, Grassi J, Hall SM, Morris RJ (2002) A marked disparity between the expression of prion protein and its message by neurones of the CNS. Neuroscience 111: 533-51
Maroon H, Walshe J, Mahmood R, Kiefer P, Dickson C, Mason I (2002) Fgf3 and Fgf8 are required together for formation of the otic placode and vesicle. Development 129: 2099-108
Allen SP, Maden M, Price JS (2002) A role for retinoic acid in regulating the regeneration of deer antlers. Dev Biol 251: 409-23
Hind M, Corcoran J, Maden M (2002) Temporal/spatial expression of retinoid binding proteins and RAR isoforms in the postnatal lung. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 282: L468-76
Hind M, Corcoran J, Maden M (2002) Alveolar proliferation, retinoid synthesizing enzymes, and endogenous retinoids in the postnatal mouse lung. Different roles for Aldh-1 and Raldh-2. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 26: 67-73
Ellies DL, Tucker AS, Lumsden A (2002) Apoptosis of premigratory neural crest cells in rhombomeres 3 and 5: consequences for patterning of the branchial region. Dev Biol 251: 118-28
Chapman SC, Schubert FR, Schoenwolf GC, Lumsden A (2002) Analysis of spatial and temporal gene expression patterns in blastula and gastrula stage chick embryos. Dev Biol 245: 187-99
Chargé SB, Brack AS, Hughes SM (2002) Aging-related satellite cell differentiation defect occurs prematurely after Ski-induced muscle hypertrophy. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 283: C1228-41
Krylova O, Herreros J, Cleverley KE, Ehler E, Henriquez JP, Hughes SM, Salinas PC (2002) WNT-3, expressed by motoneurons, regulates terminal arborization of neurotrophin-3-responsive spinal sensory neurons. Neuron 35: 1043-56
Houart C, Caneparo L, Heisenberg C, Barth K, Take-Uchi M, Wilson S (2002) Establishment of the telencephalon during gastrulation by local antagonism of Wnt signaling. Neuron 35: 255-65
Grandel H, Lun K, Rauch GJ, Rhinn M, Piotrowski T, Houart C, Sordino P, Küchler AM, Schulte-Merker S, Geisler R, Holder N, Wilson SW, Brand M (2002) Retinoic acid signalling in the zebrafish embryo is necessary during pre-segmentation stages to pattern the anterior-posterior axis of the CNS and to induce a pectoral fin bud. Development 129: 2851-65
Naeem A, Abbas L, Guthrie S (2002) Comparison of the effects of HGF, BDNF, CT-1, CNTF, and the branchial arches on the growth of embryonic cranial motor neurons. J Neurobiol 51: 101-14
Khan Z, Ferrari G, Kasper M, Tonge DA, Steiner JP, Hamilton GS, Gordon-Weeks PR (2002) The non-immunosuppressive immunophilin ligand GPI-1046 potently stimulates regenerating axon growth from adult mouse dorsal root ganglia cultured in Matrigel. Neuroscience 114: 601-9
Hall AC, Brennan A, Goold RG, Cleverley K, Lucas FR, Gordon-Weeks PR, Salinas PC (2002) Valproate regulates GSK-3-mediated axonal remodeling and synapsin I clustering in developing neurons. Mol Cell Neurosci 20: 257-70
Gonzalez-Billault C, Owen R, Gordon-Weeks PR, Avila J (2002) Microtubule-associated protein 1B is involved in the initial stages of axonogenesis in peripheral nervous system cultured neurons. Brain Res 943: 56-67
Dieterich DC, Trivedi N, Engelmann R, Gundelfinger ED, Gordon-Weeks PR, Kreutz MR (2002) Partial regeneration and long-term survival of rat retinal ganglion cells after optic nerve crush is accompanied by altered expression, phosphorylation and distribution of cytoskeletal proteins. Eur J Neurosci 15: 1433-43
van Horck FP, Lavazais E, Eickholt BJ, Moolenaar WH, Divecha N (2002) Essential role of type I(alpha) phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate 5-kinase in neurite remodeling. Curr Biol 12: 241-5
Sakurai T, Wong E, Drescher U, Tanaka H, Jay DG (2002) Ephrin-A5 restricts topographically specific arborization in the chick retinotectal projection in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99: 10795-800
Eickholt BJ, Walsh FS, Doherty P (2002) An inactive pool of GSK-3 at the leading edge of growth cones is implicated in Semaphorin 3A signaling. J Cell Biol 157: 211-7
Chadborn N, Eickholt B, Doherty P, Bolsover S (2002) Direct measurement of local raised subplasmalemmal calcium concentrations in growth cones advancing on an N-cadherin substrate. Eur J Neurosci 15: 1891-8
Buescher M, Hing FS, Chia W (2002) Formation of neuroblasts in the embryonic central nervous system of Drosophila melanogaster is controlled by SoxNeuro. Development 129: 4193-203
Yu F, Ong CT, Chia W, Yang X (2002) Membrane targeting and asymmetric localization of Drosophila partner of inscuteable are discrete steps controlled by distinct regions of the protein. Mol Cell Biol 22: 4230-40
Altmann CR, Chang C, Muñoz-Sanjuán I, Bell E, Heke M, Rifkin DB, Brivanlou AH (2002) The latent-TGFbeta-binding-protein-1 (LTBP-1) is expressed in the organizer and regulates nodal and activin signaling. Dev Biol 248: 118-27
Studer M (2002) Initiation of facial motoneurone migration is dependent on rhombomeres 5 and 6. Development 128: 3707-16
Reichert H, Simeone A (2002) Developmental genetic evidence for a monophyletic origin of the bilaterian brain. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 356: 1533-44
Martinez-Barbera JP, Signore M, Boyl PP, Puelles E, Acampora D, Gogoi R, Schubert F, Lumsden A, Simeone A (2002) Regionalisation of anterior neuroectoderm and its competence in responding to forebrain and midbrain inducing activities depend on mutual antagonism between OTX2 and GBX2. Development 128: 4789-800
Patel K, Nash JA, Itoh A, Liu Z, Sundaresan V, Pini A (2002) Slit proteins are not dominant chemorepellents for olfactory tract and spinal motor axons. Development 128: 5031-7
Reimers D, López-Toledano MA, Mason I, Cuevas P, Redondo C, Herranz AS, Lobo MV, Bazán E (2002) Developmental expression of fibroblast growth factor (FGF) receptors in neural stem cell progeny. Modulation of neuronal and glial lineages by basic FGF treatment. Neurol Res 23: 612-21
Berkovitz BK, Maden M, McCaffery P, Barrett AW (2002) The distribution of retinaldehyde dehydrogenase-2 in rat and human orodental tissues. Arch Oral Biol 46: 1099-104
Schubert FR, Tremblay P, Mansouri A, Faisst AM, Kammandel B, Lumsden A, Gruss P, Dietrich S (2002) Early mesodermal phenotypes in splotch suggest a role for Pax3 in the formation of epithelial somites. Dev Dyn 222: 506-21
Goold RG, Gordon-Weeks PR (2002) Microtubule-associated protein 1B phosphorylation by glycogen synthase kinase 3beta is induced during PC12 cell differentiation. J Cell Sci 114: 4273-84
Menon SD, Chia W (2002) Drosophila rolling pebbles: a multidomain protein required for myoblast fusion that recruits D-Titin in response to the myoblast attractant Dumbfounded. Dev Cell 1: 691-703
Sancini G, Franceschetti S, Lavazza T, Panzica F, Cipelletti B, Frassoni C, Spreafico R, Acampora D, Avanzini G (2002) Potentially epileptogenic dysfunction of cortical NMDA- and GABA-mediated neurotransmission in Otx1-/- mice. Eur J Neurosci 14: 1065-74

2001

Brünig I, Penschuck S, Berninger B, Benson J, Fritschy JM (2001) BDNF reduces miniature inhibitory postsynaptic currents by rapid downregulation of GABA(A) receptor surface expression. Eur J Neurosci 13: 1320-8
Chambers D (2001) Scientists signal the way forward. Trends Genet 17: 309-10
Stephen RL, Shaw LE, Larsen C, Corcoran D, Darbre PD (2001) Insulin-like growth factor receptor levels are regulated by cell density and by long term estrogen deprivation in MCF7 human breast cancer cells. J Biol Chem 276: 40080-6
Echeverri K, Clarke JD, Tanaka EM (2001) In vivo imaging indicates muscle fiber dedifferentiation is a major contributor to the regenerating tail blastema. Dev Biol 236: 151-64
Meyer MP, Swann K, Burnstock G, Clarke JD (2001) The extracellular ATP receptor, cP2Y(1), inhibits cartilage formation in micromass cultures of chick limb mesenchyme. Dev Dyn 222: 494-505
Harsum S, Clarke JD, Martin P (2001) A reciprocal relationship between cutaneous nerves and repairing skin wounds in the developing chick embryo. Dev Biol 238: 27-39
Chen LF, Blanc E, Chapman MS, Taylor KA (2001) Real space refinement of acto-myosin structures from sectioned muscle. J Struct Biol 133: 221-32
Retailleau P, Yin Y, Hu M, Roach J, Bricogne G, Vonrhein C, Roversi P, Blanc E, Sweet RM, Carter CW (2001) High-resolution experimental phases for tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase (TrpRS) complexed with tryptophanyl-5'AMP. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 57: 1595-608
Lehto M, Laitinen S, Chinetti G, Johansson M, Ehnholm C, Staels B, Ikonen E, Olkkonen VM (2001) The OSBP-related protein family in humans. J Lipid Res 42: 1203-13
Kiecker C, Niehrs C (2001) The role of prechordal mesendoderm in neural patterning. Curr Opin Neurobiol 11: 27-33
Kiecker C, Niehrs C (2001) A morphogen gradient of Wnt/beta-catenin signalling regulates anteroposterior neural patterning in Xenopus. Development 128: 4189-201
Scholpp S, Brand M (2001) Morpholino-induced knockdown of zebrafish engrailed genes eng2 and eng3 reveals redundant and unique functions in midbrain--hindbrain boundary development. Genesis 30: 129-33
Eickholt BJ, Graham A, Lumsden A, Wizenmann A (2001) Rhombomere interactions control the segmental differentiation of hindbrain neurons. Mol Cell Neurosci 18: 141-8
Krug K, Akerman CJ, Thompson ID (2001) Responses of neurons in neonatal cortex and thalamus to patterned visual stimulation through the naturally closed lids. J Neurophysiol 85: 1436-43
Burrone J, Murthy VN (2001) Synaptic plasticity: rush hour traffic in the AMPA lanes. Curr Biol 11: R274-7
Leibowitz G, Melloul D, Yuli M, Gross DJ, Apelqvist A, Edlund H, Cerasi E, Kaiser N (2001) Defective glucose-regulated insulin gene expression associated with PDX-1 deficiency in the Psammomys obesus model of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes 50 Suppl 1: S138-9
Leibowitz G, Ferber S, Apelqvist A Edlund H, Gross DJ, Cerasi E, Melloul D, Kaiser N (2001) IPF1/PDX1 deficiency and beta-cell dysfunction in Psammomys obesus, an animal With type 2 diabetes. Diabetes 50: 1799-806
Basson MA, Zamoyska R (2001) Insights into T-cell development from studies using transgenic and knockout mice. Mol Biotechnol 18: 11-23
Mason I, Chambers D, Shamim H, Walshe J, Irving C (2001) Regulation and function of FGF8 in patterning of midbrain and anterior hindbrain. Biochem Cell Biol 78: 577-84
Gustafson AL, Mason I (2001) Expression of receptor tyrosine phosphatase gamma during early development of the chick embryo. Mech Dev 98: 183-6
Reifers F, Adams J, Mason IJ, Schulte-Merker S, Brand M (2001) Overlapping and distinct functions provided by fgf17, a new zebrafish member of the Fgf8/17/18 subgroup of Fgfs. Mech Dev 99: 39-49
Graham A (2001) The evolution of the vertebrates--genes and development. Curr Opin Genet Dev 10: 624-8
Graham A, Smith A (2001) Patterning the pharyngeal arches. Bioessays 23: 54-61
Graham A (2001) The development and evolution of the pharyngeal arches. J Anat 199: 133-41
Graham A (2001) Development. Hear, hear, for the inner ear. Science 290: 1904-5
Smith A, Graham A (2001) Restricting Bmp-4 mediated apoptosis in hindbrain neural crest. Dev Dyn 220: 276-83
McGonnell IM, McKay IJ, Graham A (2001) A population of caudally migrating cranial neural crest cells: functional and evolutionary implications. Dev Biol 236: 354-63
Wingate RJ (2001) The rhombic lip and early cerebellar development. Curr Opin Neurobiol 11: 82-8
Tear G (2001) A new code for axons. Nature 409: 472-3
Acampora D, Gulisano M, Broccoli V, Simeone A (2001) Otx genes in brain morphogenesis. Prog Neurobiol 64: 69-95
Hughes SM (2001) Muscle development: reversal of the differentiated state. Curr Biol 11: R237-9
Hampson R, Hughes SM (2001) Muscular expressions: profiling genes in complex tissues. Genome Biol 2: REVIEWS1033
Guthrie S (2001) Axon guidance: Robos make the rules. Curr Biol 11: R300-3