Ventral mesoderm induction and patterning by bone morphogenetic protein heterodimers in Xenopus embryos

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 74, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 75-88

  Nishimatsu, Shin Ichiro ^a   Thomsen, Gerald H ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood; Bone morphogenetic protein 2; Bone morphogenetic protein 4; Bone morphogenetic protein 4 7; Bone morphogenetic protein 7; Development; Dominant negative; Dorsalization; Embryogenesis; Erythropoiesis; Growth factor; Heterodimer; Induction; Mesoderm; Pattern formation; TGF ; Ventralization; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; ACTIVIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DOMINANT GENE; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYO INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEMATOPOIESIS; MICROINJECTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ACTIVINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; DIMERIZATION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, DOMINANT; HEMATOPOIESIS; MESODERM; MICROINJECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN HYBRIDIZATION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0032102668     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00070-7     Document Type: Article

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