lin-12 and glp-1 are required zygotically for early embryonic cellular interactions and are regulated by maternal GLP-1 signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 4105-4117

  Moskowitz, Ivan P G ^a   Rothman, Joel H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Cellular interaction; Glp 1; Lin12,; Notch; Pattern formation; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL LINEAGE; CHEMOKINES, CC; CHIMERA; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; LASER SURGERY; LIGANDS; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN-1; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0030467117     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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