Requirement for Wnt3 in vertebrate axis formation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 361-365

  Liu, Pentao ^a,c   Wakamiya, Maki ^b   Shea, Martin J ^a   Albrecht, Urs ^a   Behringer, Richard R ^b   Bradley, Allan ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c Basic Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOME 11; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; VERTEBRA;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 0032776833     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/11932     Document Type: Article

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