Chordin is required for the spemann organizer transplantation phenomenon in Xenopus embryos

Developmental Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 219-230

  Oelgeschläger, Michael ^a,b   Kuroda, Hiroki ^b   Reversade, Bruno ^b   De Robertis, E M ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; CHORDIN; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; OLIGOMER;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOMITE; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0037321789     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1534-5807(02)00404-5     Document Type: Article

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