Wnt3a plays a major role in the segmentation clock controlling somitogenesis

Developmental Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 395-406

  Aulehla, Alexander ^a   Wehrle, Christian ^a   Brand Saberi, Beate ^b   Kemler, Rolf ^a   Gossler, Achim ^c   Kanzler, Benoit ^a   Herrmann, Bernhard G ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIN; BETA CATENIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; MOUSE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; OSCILLATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SOMITE; SPINE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037344080     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1534-5807(03)00055-8     Document Type: Article

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