Animal and vegetal pole cells of early Xenopus embryos respond differently to maternal dorsal determinants: Implications for the patterning of the organiser

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 4275-4286

  Darras, Sébastien ^a   Marikawa, Yusuke ^b   Elinson, Richard P ^b   Lemaire, Patrick ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cerberus; Chordin; Cortex; Maternal dorsal determinants; Noggin; Organiser; Regionalisation; Siamois; Wnt; Xenopus; Xnr3

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO POLARITY; GASTRULATION; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BODY PATTERNING; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MESODERM; RECEPTORS, TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CERBERUS;

EID: 0030660608     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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