The roles of three signaling pathways in the formation and function of the Spemann Organizer

Development

Volumn 129, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 4027-4043

  Xanthos, Jennifer B ^a   Kofron, Matthew ^a   Tao, Qinghua ^a   Schaible, Kyle ^a   Wylie, Christopher ^a   Heasman, Janet ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

catenin; Antisense oligo; Morpholino; Organizer; TGF ; VegT; Wnt

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CERBERUS PROTEIN; CHORDIN PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NOGGIN PROTEIN; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; PROTEIN XNR1; PROTEIN XNR2; PROTEIN XNR4; SMAD PROTEIN; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR VEGT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; XLIM1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; EXPLANT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INHIBITION KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIBLING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE; XENOPUS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; OOCYTES; ORGANIZERS, EMBRYONIC; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD PROTEINS; SMAD2 PROTEIN; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CERBERUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036712146     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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