Reprogramming of early embryonic blastomeres into endodermal progenitors by a Caenorhabditis elegans GATA factor

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 3809-3814

  Zhu, Jiangwen ^a   Fukushige, Tetsunari ^b   McGhee, James D ^b   Rothman, Joel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Cell fate; End 1; Endoderm; GATA factor; Germ layer

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN END 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032535755     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.24.3809     Document Type: Article

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