Patterns and control of cell motility in the Xenopus gastrula

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1931-1942

  Wacker, Stephan ^a   Brodbeck, Anja ^a   Lemaire, Patrick ^b   Niehrs, Christof ^c   Winklbauer, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activin; Adhesion; Cell migration; Cell polarity; FGF; Gastrula; Goosecoid; Mesoderm induction; Mix.1; Motility; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBRONECTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY RESPONSE GENE; ENDODERM; GASTRULA; LAMELLIPODIUM; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL POLARITY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FIBRONECTINS; GASTRULA; GOOSECOID PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INHIBINS; MESODERM; PSEUDOPODIA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031800794     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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