Formation of the definitive endoderm in mouse is a Smad2-dependent process

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 3079-3090

  Tremblay, Kimberly D ^a   Hoodless, Pamela A ^b   Bikoff, Elizabeth K ^a   Robertson, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Definitive endoderm; Smad; TGF signaling

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; ENDODERM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033854950     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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