Dominant-negative Smad2 mutants inhibit activin/Vg1 signaling and disrupt axis formation in Xenopus

Developmental Biology

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 364-379

  Hoodless, Pamela A ^a   Tsukazaki, Tomoo ^a   Nishimatsu, Shin ichiro ^b   Attisano, Liliana ^c   Wrana, Jeffrey L ^a,d   Thomsent, Gerald H ^b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Dept of Anatomy and Cell Biology ^*  (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033559209     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.9168     Document Type: Article

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