The role of micromere signaling in Notch activation and mesoderm specification during sea urchin embryogenesis

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 5255-5265

  Sweet, Hyla C ^a   Hodor, Paul G ^a,b   Ettensohn, Charles A ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Induction; Mesoderm specification; Micromeres; Notch; Sea urchin

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELL TYPE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MESENCHYME CELL; MESODERM; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SEA URCHIN;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLASTOMERES; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DOWN-REGULATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MESODERM; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SEA URCHINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033377612     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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