Cardiac looping and the vertebrate left-right axis: Antagonism of left-sided Vg1 activity by a right-sided ALK2-dependent BMP pathway

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 5195-5205

  Ramsdell, Ann F ^a   Yost, H Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

ALK2; BMP; Cardiac morphogenesis; Left right asymmetry; Smad; TGF ; Vg1; Xolloid

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; LIGAND; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; AXIS; BLASTULA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS, TYPE I; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD PROTEINS; SMAD7 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VERTEBRATES; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033390731     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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