An FGF signal from endoderm and localized factors in the posterior-vegetal egg cytoplasm pattern the mesodermal tissues in the ascidian embryo

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 2853-2862

  Kim, Gil Jung ^a   Yamada, Atsuko ^a,b   Nishida, Hiroki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascidian embryogenesis; bFGF; Mesenchyme; Mesodermal patterning; Notochord; Ooplasmic determinants; Tissue induction

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BLASTOMERE; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EGG; EMBRYO; EMBRYO INDUCTION; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENDODERM; MESENCHYME; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTINS; ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOPLASM; ENDODERM; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FLUORESCENT DYES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INHIBINS; MESODERM; MUSCLES; NOTOCHORD; OXAZINES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033944404     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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