Retinoids and posterior neural induction: A reevaluation of Nieuwkoop's two-step hypothesis

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 62, Issue , 1997, Pages 511-521

  Kolm, P J ^a   Sive, H L ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOID;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHESIS; MESODERM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DORSAL REGION; HOX GENE; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEURECTODERM; POSTERIOR NEURAL INDUCTION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SPINAL CORD; XENOPUS;

EID: 0031448105     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1997.062.01.058     Document Type: Conference Paper

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