Microtubule disruption reveals that Spemann's organizer is subdivided into two domains by the vegetal alignment zone

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 895-906

  Lane, Mary Constance ^a,b   Keller, Ray ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior posterior axis; Gastrulation; Microtubules; Organizer; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

NOCODAZOLE; PACLITAXEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SUBPOPULATION; DEPOLYMERIZATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULA; GASTRULATION; GENE STRUCTURE; INVOLUTION; MICROTUBULE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMITE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GASTRULA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MESODERM; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MICROTUBULES; MORPHOGENESIS; NOCODAZOLE; PACLITAXEL; PROTEINS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031028643     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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