Smad6 functions as an intracellular antagonist of some TGF-β family members during Xenopus embryogenesis

Genes to Cells

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 387-394

  Nakayama, Takuya ^a   Gardner, Holly ^a   Berg, Linnea K ^a   Christian, Jan L ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MESODERM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; XENOPUS;

EID: 0031866634     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1998.00196.x     Document Type: Article

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