FAST-1 is a key maternal effector of mesoderm inducers in the early Xenopus embryo

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 5621-5634

  Watanabe, Minoru ^a   Whitman, Malcolm ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

FAST 1; Mesoderm induction; Signal transduction; Smad; Transcriptional regulation; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BLOCKING ANTIBODY; SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL POLARITY; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; ENDODERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS PROTEIN VMW65; MESODERM; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS;

EID: 0033387743     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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