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Developmental Biology

Lhx2 mediates the activity of Six3 in zebrafish forebrain growth

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, February 9th, 2006

According to recent research published in the journal Developmental Biology, Lhx2 mediates the activity of Six3 in zebrafish forebrain growth.

"The telencephalon shows the greatest degree of size variation in the vertebrate brain. Understanding the genetic cascade that regulates telencephalon growth is crucial to our understanding of how evolution of the normal human brain has supported such a variation in size."

"Here," wrote H. Ando and colleagues, RIKEN, "we present a simple and quick approach to analyze this cascade that combines caged-mRNA technology and the use of antisense morpholino oligonucleotides in zebrafish embryos."

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