β-catenin mediates the specification of endoderm cells in ascidian embryos

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 3009-3020

  Imai, Kaoru ^a   Takada, Norio ^a   Satoh, Nori ^a   Satou, Yutaka ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

catenin; Ascidian; Cadherin; Endoderm specification; Notochord differentiation

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BETA CATENIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; EPIDERMIS CELL; GENE REPRESSION; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BLASTOMERES; CADHERINS; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOWN-REGULATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; ENDODERM; FETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOTOCHORD; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CIONA SAVIGNYI; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033853018     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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