Regulation of gut and heart left-right asymmetry by context-dependent interactions between Xenopus lefty and BMP4 signaling

Developmental Biology

Volumn 223, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 291-306

  Branford, William W ^a   Essner, Jeffrey J ^a   Yost, H Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

BMP4; Heart; Intestine; Left right axis; Lefty; Midline; Nodal; Pitx2; TGF ; Vg1; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; EMBRYO; ENDODERM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034662030     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2000.9739     Document Type: Article

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