Planar Cell Polarity During Development

This new volume of Current Topics in Developmental Biology covers the area of planar cell polarity with contributions from an international board of authors.

Yingzi Yang (Volume editor)

9780123945921

Hardback, published 10 December 2012

360 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.5 cm, 0.61 kg

This new volume of Current Topics in Developmental Biology covers the area of Planar Cell Polarity with contributions from an international board of authors. The 12 chapters provide a comprehensive set of reviews covering such topics as PCP in Zebra fish, the role of Dishevelled in PCP regulation, and PCP in axon pathfinding.

1. The Frizzled/Stan Pathway and Planar Cell Polarity in the Drosophila Wing
2. Asymmetric Protein Localization in Planar Cell Polarity
3. Control of Cell Polarity and Asymmetric Division in C. Elegans
4. Planar Cell Polarity in Co-Ordinated and Directed Movements
5. Planar Cell Polarity in the Inner Ear
6. Does Planar Cell Polarity Signaling Steer Growth Cones?
7. Celsr1-3 Cadherins in PCP and Brain Development
8. The Kidney and Planar Cell Polarity
9. Dishevelled: In Vivo Roles of a Multifunctional Gene Family During Development
10. An Expanding Role of Vangl Proteins in Embryonic Development
11. Wnt Regulation of Planar Cell Polarity (PCP)

 

Subject Areas: Cellular biology [cytology PSF], Developmental biology [PSC]