Dickkopf-1 is a member of a new family of secreted proteins and functions in head induction

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6665, 1998, Pages 357-362

  Glinka, Andrei ^a   Wu, Wei ^a   Delius, Hajo ^a   Monaghan, A Paula ^a   Blumenstock, Claudia ^a   Niehrs, Christof ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAD; MESODERM; MICROCEPHALY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; HEAD; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 0032556910     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/34848     Document Type: Article

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