A role for Rho-like GTPases in the polarisation of mouse eight-cell blastomeres

Developmental Biology

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 322-331

  Clayton, L ^a   Hall, Alan ^b   Johnson, M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Compaction; Cytoskeleton; GTPase; Micro filaments; Polarity; Preimplantation mouse conceptus; Rho

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSE; CYTOCHALASIN D; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RHO FACTOR; UVOMORULIN;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MATURATION; CELL POLARITY; CYTOSKELETON; INNER CELL MASS; MICROFILAMENT; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALIA; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033555897     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.9117     Document Type: Article

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