Nodal signalling and the roles of the transcription factors SnR and Pitx2 in vertebrate left-right asymmetry

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 609-612

  Patel, Ketan ^a,b   Isaac, Alison ^a,c   Cooke, Jonathan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE RNA; GASTRULA; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS;

GASTROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033519669     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80267-X     Document Type: Article

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