Dlx proteins position the neural plate border and determine adjacent cell fates

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 331-342

  Woda, Juliana M ^a   Pastagia, Julie ^a,b   Mercola, Mark ^a,c   Artinger, Kristin Bruk ^a,d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dlx; Hairy2a; Msx; Neural crest; Neural induction; Slug; Snail; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN DLX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE ACTIVATION; HEART; MESODERM; NERVE CELL; NEURAL CREST CELL; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITE; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

GASTROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037265747     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00212     Document Type: Review

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