Two novel Xenopus frizzled genes expressed in developing heart and brain

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 203-207

  Wheeler, Grant N ^a   Hoppler, Stefan ^a  

^a Div Cell Devmtl Biol Wellcome T   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye; Frizzled; Heart; Hindbrain; Midbrain; Neural crest; Organogenesis; Pronephric duct; Tailbud; Wnt; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; HEART; MESODERM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FRIZZLED RECEPTORS; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

STYLEPHORIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032779256     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00117-3     Document Type: Article

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