Frizzled-8 is expressed in the Spemann organizer and plays a role in early morphogenesis

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 2687-2700

  Deardorff, Matthew A ^a   Tan, Change ^a   Conrad, Leslee J ^a   Klein, Peter S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergent extension; frizzled; Gastrulation; Morphogenesis; Neurulation; Spemann organizer; wnt; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

RECEPTOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FRIZZLED RECEPTORS; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICROINJECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031858137     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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