Timing of endogenous activin-like signals and regional specification of the Xenopus embryo

Development

Volumn 128, Issue 15, 2001, Pages 2939-2952

  Lee, M A ^a   Heasman, J ^a   Whitman, M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Mesoderm induction; Nodal; Phosphorylation; Signal transduction; Smad; TGF ; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; ANTIBODY; BETA CATENIN; LIGAND; SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENDODERM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GASTRULA; GASTRULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BETA CATENIN; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENDODERM; INHIBINS; LIGANDS; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD2 PROTEIN; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0034887534     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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