Overlapping and specific functions of Braf and Craf-1 proto-oncogenes during mouse embryogenesis

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 91, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 97-104

  Wojnowski, Leszek ^a,b   Stancato, Louis F ^c   Larner, Andrew C ^c   Rapp, Ulf R ^d   Zimmer, Andreas ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b Epidauros Biotechnologie AG   (Germany)

^c CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Braf; Craf 1; Embryogenesis; Proto oncogenes

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE FUNCTION; MESODERM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; ISOENZYMES; MICE; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RAF; PROTO-ONCOGENES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033997943     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00276-2     Document Type: Article

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