Sonic hedgehog enhances somite cell viability and formation of primary slow muscle fibers in avian segmented mesoderm

A series of normal stages in the development of the chick embryo

1951 • 12,226 citations

Regulation of skeletal muscle mass in mice by a new TGF-p superfamily member

1997 • 3,802 citations

Cyclopia and defective axial patterning in mice lacking Sonic hedgehog gene function

1996 • 3,041 citations

Sonic hedgehog, a member of a family of putative signaling molecules, is implicated in the regulation of CNS polarity

1993 • 2,146 citations

A functionally conserved homolog of the Drosophila segment polarity gene hh is expressed in tissues with polarizing activity in zebrafish embryos

1993 • 1,086 citations

Floor plate and motor neuron induction by different concentrations of the amino-terminal cleavage product of sonic hedgehog autoproteolysis

1995 • 886 citations

Two Critical Periods of Sonic Hedgehog Signaling Required for the Specification of Motor Neuron Identity

1996 • 866 citations

Biochemical evidence that Patched is the Hedgehog receptor

1996 • 852 citations

Early stages of chick somite development

1995 • 781 citations

The PDGFα receptor is required for neural crest cell development and for normal patterning of the somites

1997 • 706 citations

Developmental regulation of zebrafish MyoD in wild-type, no tail and spadetail embryos

1996 • 653 citations

Patterning of mammalian somites by surface ectoderm and notochord: Evidence for sclerotome induction by a hedgehog homolog

1994 • 594 citations

Two myogenic lineages within the developing somite

1992 • 570 citations

Combinatorial signaling by Sonic hedgehog and Wnt family members induces myogenic bHLH gene expression in the somite.

1995 • 504 citations

Requirement of 19K form of Sonic hedgehog for induction of distinct ventral cell types in CNS explants

1995 • 491 citations

Lateral and Axial Signals Involved in Avian Somite Patterning: A Role for BMP4

1996 • 416 citations

Differential activation of Myf5 and MyoD by different Wnts in explants of mouse paraxial mesoderm and the later activation of myogenesis in the absence of Myf5

1998 • 369 citations

Myogenic cell lineages

1992 • 360 citations

Notochord induction of zebrafish slow muscle mediated by Sonic hedgehog

1997 • 356 citations

Protein kinase A is a common negative regulator of Hedgehog signaling in the vertebrate embryo.

1996 • 351 citations

Long-range sclerotome induction by sonic hedgehog: Direct role of the amino-terminal cleavage product and modulation by the cyclic AMP signaling pathway

1995 • 341 citations

Induction of a specific muscle cell type by a hedgehog-like protein in zebrafish

1996 • 320 citations

Myosin expression and specialization among the earliest muscle fibers of the developing avian limb

1986 • 300 citations

Spatial regulation of a zebrafish patched homologue reflects the roles of sonic hedgehog and protein kinase A in neural tube and somite patterning

1996 • 299 citations

Noggin acts downstream of Wnt and Sonic Hedgehog to antagonize BMP4 in avian somite patterning

1997 • 266 citations

Regulation of dorsal somitic cell fates: BMPs and Noggin control the timing and pattern of myogenic regulator expression

1998 • 262 citations

Determination of somite cells: independence of cell differentiation and morphogenesis

1988 • 204 citations

Catching a Gli-mpse of Hedgehog

1997 • 198 citations

Positive and Negative Regulation of Muscle Cell Identity by Members of the hedgehog and TGF-β Gene Families

1997 • 196 citations

Combinatorial signals from the neural tube, floor plate and notochord induce myogenic bHLH gene expression in the somite

1995 • 194 citations

Sonic hedgehog is required for survival of both myogenic and chondrogenic somitic lineages

1998 • 189 citations

On the origin and development of the ventrolateral abdominal muscles in the avian embryo

1983 • 184 citations

Control of somite patterning by Sonic hedgehog and its downstream signal response genes

1998 • 183 citations

Developmental origins of skeletal muscle fibers: clonal analysis of myogenic cell lineages based on expression of fast and slow myosin heavy chains.

1986 • 179 citations

Sonic Hedgehog induces proliferation of committed skeletal muscle cells in the chick limb

1998 • 179 citations

Consequences of neural tube and notochord excision on the development of the peripheral nervous system in the chick embryo

1983 • 177 citations

Myogenesis in paraxial mesoderm: preferential induction by dorsal neural tube and by cells expressing Wnt-1

1995 • 171 citations

THE CULTIVATION OF TISSUES IN SALINE EMBRYONIC JUICE.

1924 • 143 citations

Myogenic specification in somites: induction by axial structures

1994 • 118 citations

Establishing myogenic identity during somitogenesis

1997 • 110 citations

Neural Tube and Notochord Promote in Vitro Myogenesis in Single Somite Explants

1995 • 101 citations

Transfilter induction of kidney tubules as a function of the extent and duration of intercellular contacts

1978 • 100 citations

Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinase Inhibits the Activity of Myogenic Helix-Loop-Helix Proteins

1992 • 95 citations

The Expression and Regulation ofFollistatinand aFollistatin-likeGene during Avian Somite Compartmentalization and Myogenesis

1996 • 92 citations

Mechanisms of Formation of Muscle Fiber Types.

1997 • 83 citations

Myogenic Specification of Somites Is Mediated by Diffusible Factors

1995 • 64 citations

Synergistic interactions between bFGF and a TGF-β family member may mediate myogenic signals from the neural tube

1997 • 58 citations

A segmented pattern of cell death during development of the chick embryo

1992 • 52 citations

Distinct Signal/Response Mechanisms Regulatepax1andQmyoDActivation in Sclerotomal and Myotomal Lineages of Quail Somites

1997 • 49 citations

Severe defects in the formation of epaxial musculature in open brain (opb) mutant mouse embryos

1996 • 44 citations

Emergence of determined myotome precursor cells in the somite

1997 • 42 citations

Apoptosis of Epaxial Myotome inDanforth's short-tail(Sd) Mice in Somites That Form Following Notochord Degeneration

1998 • 31 citations

Cell Death in the Avian Sclerotome

1997 • 29 citations