Defining intermediate stages in cell determination: Acquisition of a lens-forming bias in head ectoderm during lens determination

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 246-257

  Grainger, Robert M ^a   Mannion, Jane E ^a   Cook Jr , T Les ^a   Zygar, Carol A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell determination; Embryo; Eye; Induction; Lens; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; LENS EPITHELIUM; NEURAL TUBE; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; STEM CELL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECTODERM; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAD; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; RANIDAE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030802112     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1997)20:3<246::AID-DVG7>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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