Mechanisms of left-right determination in vertebrates

Cell

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-21

  Capdevila, Javier ^a   Vogan, Kyle J ^b   Tabin, Clifford J ^b   Izpisúa Belmonte, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034737302     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80619-4     Document Type: Review

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