A member of the frizzled protein family mediating axis induction by Wnt- 5A

Science

Volumn 275, Issue 5306, 1997, Pages 1652-1654

  He, Xi ^a,d   Saint Jeannet, Jean Pierre ^b   Wang, Yanshu ^c   Nathans, Jeremy ^c   Dawid, Igor ^b   Varmus, Harold ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030941498     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.275.5306.1652     Document Type: Article

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