Functional differences among Xenopus nodal-related genes in left-right axis determination

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 3293-3302

  Sampath, Karuna ^a,b   Cheng, Abby M S ^a   Frisch, Amanda ^a   Wright, Christopher V E ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Institute of Molecular Agrobiology   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Laterality; Left right axis; Nodal; Xenopus; Xnr 1; Xnr 2; Xnr 3

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO POLARITY; GASTRULATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HEART; INTESTINE; MESODERM; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICK EMBRYO; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INJECTIONS; MESODERM; MICE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; ERINACEIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030869668     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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