Anterior structural defects by misexpression of Xgbx-2 in early Xenopus embryos are associated with altered expression of cell adhesion molecules

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 212, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 563-579

  King, Michael W ^a,d   Ndiema, Moses ^b   Neff, Anton W ^c  

^a Indiana University   (United States)

^b MOI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ISU   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell adhesion; Ectopic expression; Homeobox; Pattern formation

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CADHERIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO POLARITY; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMISPHERE; HOMEOBOX; MESENCEPHALON; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; NEURAL TUBE; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; BRAIN; CADHERINS; CALCIUM; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; EYE ABNORMALITIES; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; RNA; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031904233     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199808)212:4<563::AID-AJA9>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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