Cloning and expression of the Wnt antagonists Sfrp-2 and Frzb during chick development

Developmental Biology

Volumn 218, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 183-198

  Ladher, R K ^a   Church, V L ^a   Allen, S ^a   Robson, L ^b   Abdelfattah, A ^a   Brown, N A ^c   Hattersley, G ^d   Rosen, V ^d   Luyten, F P ^e   Dale, L ^f   Francis West, P H ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d PFIZER INC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chondrogenesis; Craniofacial; Frzb; Heart; Limb; Myogenesis; Neural; Placodes; Sfrp 2 (SDF 5); Wnt antagonist

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHONDROGENESIS; CLONING; DEVELOPMENT; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; GENE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034651607     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9586     Document Type: Article

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