Endodermal Nodal-related signals and mesoderm induction in Xenopus

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1173-1183

  Agius, Eric ^a,b   Oelgeschläger, Michael ^a   Wessely, Oliver ^a   Kemp, Caroline ^a   De Robertis, E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Centre de Biologie du Développement Bâtiment 4R3   (France)

Author keywords

catenin; Activin; Cer S; Cerberus; Derriere; Mesoderm induction; Nodal; TGF ; VegT; Vg1; Xnr

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTOCYST; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; ENDODERM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MESODERM; ORGANIZERS, EMBRYONIC; PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CERBERUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0342803683     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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