Early anteroposterior division of the presumptive neurectoderm in Xenopus

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 21-36

  Gamse, Joshua T ^a,b   Sive, Hazel ^a,b  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anteroposterior patterning; Bone morphogenetic protein; Cerberus; Ectoderm; fkh5; Gastrulation; Neural induction; Noggin; opl; Wnt; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; NOGGIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; GASTRULA; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ECTODERM; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MODELS, GENETIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURONS; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

CERBERUS;

EID: 0034972436     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(01)00358-6     Document Type: Article

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