Signal relay by BMP antagonism controls the SHH/FGF4 feedback loop in vertebrate limb buds

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6753, 1999, Pages 598-602

  Zúñiga, Aimée ^a,b   Haramis, Anna Pavilna G ^b,d   McMahon, Andrew P ^c   Zeller, Rolf ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 4;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CHICKENS; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ECTODERM; FEEDBACK; FETAL PROTEINS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIMB BUD; MICE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ERINACEIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0041030051     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/44157     Document Type: Article

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