Analysis of wnt/engrailed signaling in Xenopus embryos using biolistics

Developmental Biology

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 348-352

  Koster, Johanna G ^a,b   Eizema, Karin ^a   Peterson Maduro, L Joselin ^a   Stegeman, Brenda I ^a,b   Destrée, Olivier H J ^a  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA TRANSFER; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TECHNIQUE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030021985     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.0029     Document Type: Article

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