Building a cellular switch: More lessons from a good egg

BioEssays

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 866-870

  Ferrell Jr , James E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

EID: 0033214771     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199910)21:10<866::AID-BIES9>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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