Nuclear localization of β-catenin in vegetal pole cells during early embryogenesis of the starfish Asterina pectinifera

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 121-128

  Miyawaki, Kyojy ^a,b   Yamamoto, Masamichi ^a   Saito, Kyoko ^b   Saito, Shouichiro ^b   Kobayashi, Naoto ^b   Matsuda, Seiji ^b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

catenin; Archenteron formation; Cell differentiation; Starfish embryo; Vegetal pole

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTERIAS; BLASTULA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FERTILIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOGENESIS; STARFISH; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ANIMALIA; ASTERIAS; ASTERINA PECTINIFERA; ASTEROIDEA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037656153     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0854.2004.00681.x     Document Type: Article

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