Epithelial cell wedging and neural trough formation are induced planarly in Xenopus, without persistent vertical interactions with mesoderm

Developmental Biology

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 256-269

  Poznanski, Ann ^a,b,c   Minsuk, Sharon ^a,d   Stathopoulos, Demetra ^a,e   Keller, Ray ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EPITHELIUM CELL; GASTRULA; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEURAL TUBE; NEUROECTODERM; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031572261     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8678     Document Type: Article

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