Early embryonic induction in C. elegans can be inhibited with polysulfated hydrocarbon dyes

Developmental Biology

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 17-21

  Bossinger, Olaf ^a   Schierenberg, Einhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE; HYDROCARBON; TRYPAN BLUE;

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO INDUCTION; INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0029893270     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.9998     Document Type: Article

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