Anterior endomesoderm specification in Xenopus by Wnt/β-catenin and TGF-β signalling pathways

Developmental Biology

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 282-297

  Zorn, Aaron M ^a,b   Butler, Karen ^a,b   Gurdon, J B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anterior endomesoderm; Cerberus; Endoderm patterning; Hex; TGF ; Wnt catenin; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CELL CONTACT; CELL FATE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO INDUCTION; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENDODERM; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEAD; INTESTINE; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; MARKER GENE; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; CERBERUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033562351     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9257     Document Type: Article

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