Regulation of dorsal-ventral patterning: The ventralizing effects of the novel Xenopus homeobox gene Vox

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1711-1721

  Schmidt, Jennifer E ^a   Von Dassow, George ^a,b   Kimelman, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

BMP 4; Dorsal ventral patterning; Homeobox; Organizer; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE REPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; PROTEINS; RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0029984109     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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