Bmp-4 acts as a morphogen in dorsoventral mesoderm patterning in Xenopus

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2325-2334

  Dosch, Roland ^a   Gawantka, Volker ^a   Delius, Hajo ^a   Blumenstock, Claudia ^a   Niehrs, Christof ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bmp 4; Mesoderm; Noggin; Xenopus; XMyf 5; Xvent

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; MORPHOGEN;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GASTRULA; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLASTOCYST; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GASTRULA; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESODERM; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTOR 5; PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030789367     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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