Head in the WNT the molecular nature of Speamanns' head organizer

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 314-319

  Niehrs, Christof ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO INDUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE FUNCTION; HEAD; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROECTODERM; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTORS; VERTEBRATES; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

AMPHIBIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033180030     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(99)01767-9     Document Type: Review

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