Xenopus frizzled-5: A frizzled family member expressed exclusively in the neural retina of the developing eye

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 133-136

  Sumanas, Saulius ^a,b   Ekker, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Molec Biol Biophys Grad P   (United States)

Author keywords

Ciliary marginal zone; Expression; Eye; Frizzled; Neural; Retina; Wnt; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SERPENTINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DEVELOPMENT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; RETINA NEUROEPITHELIAL LAYER; TECHNIQUE; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; FRIZZLED RECEPTORS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RETINA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0034999197     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(01)00327-6     Document Type: Article

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