Hepatic specification of the gut endoderm in vitro: Cell signaling and transcriptional control

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 1670-1682

  Gualdi, Rossana ^a   Bossard, Pascale ^a   Zheng, Minghua ^a   Hamada, Yoshio ^a,b   Coleman, John R ^a   Zaret, Kenneth S ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

chromatin; development; Endoderm; liver; transcription

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR FACTOR I;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENDODERM; EVOLUTION; EXPLANT; GENE ACTIVATION; INTESTINE; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE INDUCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029767664     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.13.1670     Document Type: Article

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