BMP-4 mediates interacting signals between the neural tube and skin along the dorsal midline

Genes to Cells

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 775-783

  Takahashi, Yoshiko ^a   Tonegawa, Akane ^a,b   Matsumoto, Kazuyuki ^a,e   Ueno, Naoto ^b   Kuroiwa, Atsushi ^c   Noda, Masaki ^d   Nifuji, Akira ^d  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MSX2;

ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ECTODERM; METABOLISM; NEURAL CREST; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN;

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CELL POLARITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECTODERM; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; NEURAL CREST; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN;

EID: 0030203786     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.1996.tb00017.x     Document Type: Article

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