FGF signaling and the anterior neural induction in Xenopus

Developmental Biology

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 561-581

  Hongo, Ikuko ^a   Kengaku, Mineko ^b   Okamoto, Harumasa ^a  

^a NATL INST BIOSCI HUM TECHNOL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dominant negative receptor; FGF receptor; Neural induction; Organizer; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELENCEPHALON; TISSUE INDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0033572465     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9515     Document Type: Article

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