Nodal signaling and axis formation in the mouse

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 62, Issue , 1997, Pages 105-113

  Varlet, I ^a   Collignon, J ^a,b   Norris, D P ^a   Robertson, E J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; CHIMERA; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL DENSITY; CELL POPULATION; ECTODERM; ENDODERM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMITIVE STREAK; REPORTER GENE; RNA PROBE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3BETA; NODAL SIGNALING PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0031448207     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1997.062.01.015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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