An autoregulatory cascade of EGF receptor signaling patterns the Drosophila egg

Cell

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 355-364

  Wasserman, Jonathan D ^a   Freeman, Matthew ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGAND BINDING; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0032582797     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81767-5     Document Type: Article

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