Anterior specification of embryonic ectoderm: The role of the Xenopus cement gland-specific gene XAG-2

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 72, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 115-130

  Aberger, Fritz ^a,c   Weidinger, Gilbert ^a   Grunz, Horst ^b   Richter, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cement gland; Neural induction; Pattern formation; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

FOLLISTATIN; GENE PRODUCT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; EXOCRINE GLANDS; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; TRETINOIN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; CERBERUS; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032033616     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00021-5     Document Type: Article

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