Molecular mechanisms of Spemann's organizer formation: Conserved growth factor synergy between Xenopus and mouse

Genes and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 24, 1995, Pages 3038-3050

  Watabe, Tetsuro ^a   Kim, Sam ^a   Candia, Albert ^a   Rothbächer, Ute ^a   Hashimoto, Chikara ^a   Inoue, Kunio ^a,b   Cho, Ken W Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

activin; axis specification; goosecoid; homoe box; Mesoderm; TGF ; Vgl; Wnt

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; DNA; GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MESODERM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPORTER GENE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029585862     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.9.24.3038     Document Type: Article

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