A developmental pathway controlling outgrowth of the Xenopus tail bud

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1611-1620

  Beck, C W ^a   Slack, J M W ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Delta; lunatic fringe; Notch; Secondary neurulation; Tail bud outgrowth; Wnt3a; Xenopus laevis; Xhox3

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOST; NEURAL TUBE; NEUROECTODERM; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TAIL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TAIL; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032915457     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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