Co-expression of the HGF/SF and c-met genes during early mouse embryogenesis precedes reciprocal expression in adjacent tissues during organogenesis

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 254-266

  Andermarcher, E ^a   Surani, M A ^b   Gherardi, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

autocrine and paracrine signaling; c met; epithelial mesenchymal interactions; HGF SF; mouse development

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; SCATTER FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; SOMITE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; BRANCHIAL REGION; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; LIMB BUD; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; VISCERA;

EID: 0029869298     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1996)18:3<254::AID-DVG6>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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