Changes in the adhesive properties of dissociated and reaggregated Xenopus laevis embryo cells

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 283-291

  Kuroda, Hiroki ^a   Sakumoto, Hirofumi ^a   Kinoshita, Kei ^b   Asashima, Makoto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activin A; Adhesive property; Animal cap; Mesoderm inducer; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; INHIBINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0033020725     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.1999.413428.x     Document Type: Article

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