Antagonistic signaling by Caronte, a novel Cerberus-related gene, establishes left-right asymmetric gene expression

Cell

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 573-583

  Yokouchi, Yuji ^a,b   Vogan, Kyle J ^a   Pearse II, Richard V ^a   Tabin, Clifford J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INHIBITION KINETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CERBERUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033520394     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80045-8     Document Type: Article

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