Gap junction-mediated transfer of left-right patterning signals in the early chick blastoderm is upstream of Shh asymmetry in the node

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 4703-4714

  Levin, Michael ^a   Mercola, Mark ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Blastoderm; Chick; Cx43; Gap junction; Left right; Nodal; Shh

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; BLOCKING ANTIBODY; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; LINDANE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CELL COMMUNICATION; CHICK EMBRYO; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GAP JUNCTION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BLASTODERM; BODY PATTERNING; CHICK EMBRYO; CONNEXIN 43; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; LINDANE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032707182     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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