Revisions to the Xenopus gastrula fate map: Implications for mesoderm induction and patterning

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 225, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 409-421

  Kumano, Gaku ^a   Smith, William C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal vegetal; Blood; Fibroblast growth factor; Induction; Mesoderm; Patterning; Three signal model; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MOLECULAR MARKER; MYOD PROTEIN;

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO INDUCTION; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; MODEL; MORPHOGENESIS; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; POLARIZATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINEAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL LINEAGE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGANIZERS, EMBRYONIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; XENOPUS;

EID: 0036896971     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.10177     Document Type: Review

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