Left-right asymmetry determination in vertebrates

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 17, Issue , 2001, Pages 779-805

  Mercola, M ^a   Levin, M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chick; Cilia; Gap junctions; Laterality; Mice; Nodal; Shh; TGF ; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHICKEN; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC SCREENING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEREOTYPY; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; STEREOISOMERISM; VERTEBRATES;

DANIO RERIO; GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035178866     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.17.1.779     Document Type: Conference Paper

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