A role for maternal β-catenin in early mesoderm induction in Xenopus

EMBO Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 3303-3313

  Schohl, Anne ^a,b   Fagotto, François ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Embryonic development; FGF; MAPK; Wnt pathway Xnr

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EOMESODERMIN GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; MARKER GENE; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XBRA GENE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA CATENIN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MESODERM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037588502     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg328     Document Type: Article

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