Impact of node ablation on the morphogenesis of the body axis and the lateral asymmetry of the mouse embryo during early organogenesis

Developmental Biology

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-26

  Davidson, Bruce P ^a   Kinder, Simon J ^a   Steiner, Kirsten ^a   Schoenwolf, Gary C ^b   Tam, Patrick P L ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Body axis; Gene expression; Laterality; Mouse embryo; Node; Notochord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; ENDODERM; GASTRULA; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMITE; STEM CELL; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033168489     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9276     Document Type: Article

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