SCL specifies hematopoietic mesoderm in Xenopus embryos

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 2611-2620

  Mead, Paul E ^a   Kelley, Clair M ^a   Hahn, Peter S ^a   Piedad, Oscar ^a   Zon, Leonard I ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell fate; Hematopoiesis mesoderm; SCL; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLOBIN; RECEPTOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DORSAL ROOT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMATOPOIESIS; LEUKEMIA; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; VENTRAL ROOT; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTORS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEMATOPOIESIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031825761     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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