Neural induction in the absence of mesoderm: β-Catenin-dependent expression of secreted BMP antagonists at the blastula stage in Xenopus

Developmental Biology

Volumn 234, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 161-173

  Wessely, Oliver ^a   Agius, Eric ^a,b   Oelgeschläger, Michael ^a   Pera, Edgar M ^a   De Robertis, E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Centre de Biologie du Développement Bâtiment 4R3   (France)

Author keywords

Chordin; Follistatin; Lefty; Neural induction; Nodal related; Noggin; Spemann's organizer; Xenopus laevis; Xnr3; Catenin

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CHORDIN; FOLLISTATIN; NOGGIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULA; MESODERM; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

CERBERUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0035370273     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2001.0258     Document Type: Article

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