Xenopus frizzled 7 can act in canonical and non-canonical Wnt signaling pathways: Implications on early patterning and morphogenesis

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 227-237

  Medina, Araceli ^a   Reintsch, Wolfgang ^a   Steinbeisser, Herbert ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell adhesion; Dorso ventral patterning; Frizzled receptors; Morphogenesis; Wnt signaling; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; PROTEIN KINASE C;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOTILITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; EXPLANT; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL ADHESION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TAIL; WNT PROTEINS; WNT1 PROTEIN; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034176626     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(00)00240-9     Document Type: Article

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