The temporal requirement for endothelin receptor-B signalling during neural crest development

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6761, 1999, Pages 496-501

  Shin, Myung K ^a   Levorse, John M ^a   Ingram, Robert S ^a   Tilghman, Shirley M ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE LOCUS; INTESTINE INNERVATION; MELANOCYTE; NEURAL CREST; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CECUM; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; COLON; DOXYCYCLINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MELANOCYTES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL CREST; NEURONS; RECEPTOR, ENDOTHELIN B; RECEPTORS, ENDOTHELIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TETRACYCLINE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0033518175     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/990040     Document Type: Article

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