Disruption of BMP signals in embryonic Xenopus ectoderm leads to direct neural induction

Genes and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 23, 1995, Pages 2923-2935

  Hawley, Stephanie H B ^a   Wünnenberg Stapleton, Katrin ^a   Hashimoto, Chikara ^a   Laurent, Micheline N ^a   Watabe, Tetsuro ^a   Blumberg, Bruce W ^a,b   Cho, Ken W Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

activin; amphibian; BMP 4; BMP 7; cement gland; dominant negative; TGF

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN;

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MESODERM; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA;

EID: 0028790603     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.9.23.2923     Document Type: Article

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