Xerl Is a Secreted Protein Required for Establishing the Neural Plate/Neural Crest Boundary in Xenopus Embryo

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Comparative Experimental Biology

Volumn 296, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 108-116

  Kuriyama, Sei ^a   Ueda, Akihiro ^a   Kinoshita, Tsutomu ^a  

^a KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

XENOPUS;

ANTISERUM; EYE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; XENOPUS PROTEIN; XERL PROTEIN, XENOPUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NEURAL CREST; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SECRETION; SPINAL CORD; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNE SERA; NEURAL CREST; RNA, MESSENGER; SPINAL CORD; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0038540157     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.a.10247     Document Type: Article

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