Isolation of the Xenopus nrp-1 gene and analysis of its expression following the midblastula transition in injected Xenopus embryos

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 439-448

  O'Connell, Marcia L ^a,b   Rebbert, Martha L ^a   Dawid, Igor B ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b The College of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

midblastula transition; neural gene; RNA binding protein; transcription; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; LUCIFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ISOLATION; NONHUMAN; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; XENOPUS;

EID: 0029742767     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.1996.t01-3-00012.x     Document Type: Article

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