An early developmental role for Eph-ephrin interaction during vertebrate gastrulation

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 83, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 77-94

  Oates, Andrew C ^c   Lackmann, Martin ^c   Power, Mary Anne ^a   Brennan, Caroline ^b   Down, L Michelle ^a   Do, Cuong ^c   Evans, Betty ^a   Holder, Nigel ^b   Boyd, Andrew W ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

BIAcore analysis; Boundary formation; CNS patterning; Danio rerio; Development; Eph; EphA1; EphA3; EphB1; Ephrin; Ephrin A5; Fc fusion; Gastrulation; HEK; L1; LERK 7; Mesoderm; RNA microinjection; Somitogenesis; Vertebrate embryogenesis; Whole mount in situ hybridisation; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EPHRIN-A1; EPHRIN-A3; EPHRIN-A5; EPHRIN-B1; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; KINETICS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032968502     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00036-2     Document Type: Article

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