Establishment of a BMP-4 morphogen gradient by long-range inhibition

Developmental Biology

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 12-17

  Jones, C Michael ^a   Smith, J C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; MORPHOGEN;

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULA; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032006298     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8752     Document Type: Article

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