Laminin α subunits and their role in C. elegans development

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 3343-3358

  Huang, Cheng Chen ^a   Hall, David H ^b   Hedgecock, Edward M ^c   Kao, Gautam ^a   Karantza, Vassiliki ^a   Vogel, Bruce E ^d   Hutter, Harald ^e   Chisholm, Andrew D ^f   Yurchenco, Peter D ^a   Wadsworth, William G ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Basement membranes; C. elegans; Cell adhesion; Cell migration; Cell polarity; Cell cell signaling; Differentiation; Extracellular matrix; Laminin

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CELL RECEPTOR; GLYCOPROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; LAMININ; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GASTRULATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037752485     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00481     Document Type: Article

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