Xenopus mothers against decapentaplegic is an embryonic ventralizing agent that acts downstream of the BMP-2/4 receptor

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2359-2366

  Thomsen, Gerald H ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BMP; Drosophila; Mad; Mesoderm; Pattern formation; Signal transduction; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; CELL RECEPTOR; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTORS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; INSECT HORMONES; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029834231     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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