Positive and negative signals modulate formation of the Xenopus cement gland

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2739-2750

  Bradley, Leila ^a   Wainstock, Daniel ^a   Sive, Hazel ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cement gland; Endoderm; Induction; Ventral ectoderm; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; ECTODERM; ENDODERM; GASTRULA; GASTRULATION; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; MUCUS GLAND; MUCUS SECRETION; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; ENDODERM; EXOCRINE GLANDS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GASTRULA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029837283     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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