Cerberus-like is a secreted factor with neuralizing activity expressed in the anterior primitive endoderm of the mouse gastrula

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 68, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 45-57

  Belo, José António ^a   Bouwmeester, Tewis ^a   Leyns, Luc ^a   Kertesz, Nathalie ^a   Gallo, Michael ^b   Follettie, Maximillian ^b   De Robertis, Eddy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerberus like; Goosecoid; Liml; Neural induction; Primitive endoderm

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CHROMOSOME NOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; GASTRULA; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; HOMEOBOX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; ENDODERM; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3-BETA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MICROINJECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0031436570     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(97)00125-1     Document Type: Article

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