Interactions between rhombomeres modulate Krox-20 and follistatin expression in the chick embryo hindbrain

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 473-480

  Graham, Anthony ^a   Lumsden, Andrew ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chick; Follistatin; Hindbrain; Krox 20; Rhombomere

Indexed keywords

FOLLISTATIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CHICK EMBRYO; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; CHICK EMBRYO; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 2; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FOLLISTATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PHENOTYPE; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0030062694     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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