Flik, a chick follistatin-related gene, functions in gastrular dorsalisation/neural induction and in subsequent maintenance of midline Sonic hedgehog signalling

Developmental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 298-317

  Towers, Paula ^a   Patel, Ketan ^b   Withington, Sarah ^a   Isaac, Alison ^c   Cooke, Jonathan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antisense; BMP4; Dorsalisation; Neural induction; Organiser; Somite patterning; Sonic hedgehog

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FOLLISTATIN; RNA; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AVES; ERINACEIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033569912     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9421     Document Type: Article

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