A role for Xenopus Gli-type zinc finger proteins in the early embryonic patterning of mesoderm and neuroectoderm

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 211-225

  Marine, Jean Christophe ^a   Bellefroid, Eric J ^b   Pendeville, Hélène ^a   Martial, Joseph A ^a   Pieler, Tomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Zentrum Biochem Molec Zellbiologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gli; Xenopus; Zinc finger protein

Indexed keywords

ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA TRANSFECTION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MESODERM; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRESSOR GENE; XENOPUS;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030993619     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(97)00050-6     Document Type: Article

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