Multiple roles for activin-like kinase-2 signaling during mouse embryogenesis

Developmental Biology

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 314-326

  Mishina, Yuji ^a,b   Crombie, Robert ^c   Bradley, Allan ^c   Behringer, Richard R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gastrulation; Mesoderm; Signal transduction; TGF gene family

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GASTRULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; MALE; MESODERM; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033568445     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9378     Document Type: Article

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