Pre-MBT patterning of early gene regulation in Xenopus: The role of the cortical rotation and mesoderm induction

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 70, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 15-24

  Ding, Xiaoyan ^a,b   Hausen, Peter ^b   Steinbeisser, Herbert ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blastomere explants; Cortical rotation; Mesoderm; Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; BLASTULA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO POLARITY; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERES; BODY PATTERNING; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GOOSECOID PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESODERM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 0031906372     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(97)00163-9     Document Type: Article

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