A novel guanine exchange factor increases the competence of early ectoderm to respond to neural induction

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-72

  Morgan, Richard ^a   Hooiveld, Michiel H W ^a   Durston, Antony J ^a  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ectoderm; Guanine exchange factor; Neural induction

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; INITIATION FACTOR; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; MESODERM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIGLYCERIDES; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURAL CREST; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; XENOPUS;

EID: 0032834159     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00172-0     Document Type: Article

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