Animal-vegetal asymmetries influence the earliest steps in retina fate commitment in Xenopus

Developmental Biology

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-41

  Moore, Kathryn B ^a   Moody, Sally A ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Activin; Bone morphogenetic protein; Competence; Fibroblast growth factor; Head induction; Wnt, cerberus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO POLARITY; HEAD; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE INDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0033178376     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9338     Document Type: Article

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