Differential effects on Xenopus development of interference with type IIA and type IIB activin receptors

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 61, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 175-186

  New, H V ^a   Kavka, A I ^b   Smith, J C ^a   Green, J B A ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

activin; activin receptor; mesoderm induction; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR; RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HISTOLOGY; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TISSUE INDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GOOSECOID PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 0031049724     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(96)00639-9     Document Type: Article

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