Evidence that absence of Wnt-3a signaling promotes neuralization instead of paraxial mesoderm development in the mouse

Developmental Biology

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 234-242

  Yoshikawa, Yoshiaki ^a   Fujimori, Toshihiko ^a   McMahon, Andrew P ^b   Takada, Shinji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; HISTOLOGY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; MOUSE; MUTANT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMITE;

EID: 0031569359     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8502     Document Type: Article

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