Induction of the primary dorsalizing center in Xenopus by the Wnt/GSK/β-catenin signaling pathway, but not by Vg1, activin or noggin

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 453-460

  Fagotto, François ^a   Guger, Kathleen ^a   Gumbiner, Barry M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

catenin; Activin; Axis formation; Dorsoventral patterning; Growth factor; Nieuwkoop Center; Noggin; Siamois; Signal transduction; Spemann Organizer; Wnt; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BETA CATENIN; CADHERIN; GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SECRETORY PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO INDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CADHERINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FEMALE; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; GLYCOPROTEINS; GOOSECOID PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INHIBINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031040143     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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