Xwnt-2b is a novel axis-inducing Xenopus Wnt, which is expressed in embryonic brain

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 199-209

  Landesman, Yosef ^a,b   Sokol, Sergei Y ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain development; Dorsoventral axis; En 2; Neural induction; Wnt; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; XENOPUS;

EID: 0030916385     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(97)00041-5     Document Type: Article

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