Presence and roles of calcium gradients along the dorsal-ventral axis in Drosophila embryos

Developmental Biology

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 375-385

  Créton, Robbert ^a   Kreiling, Jill A ^a   Jaffe, Lionel F ^a  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aequorin; Dorsoventral axis; Embryonic development; Imaging photon detector; Pattern formation; Signaling pathways; TGF ; Ca2+

Indexed keywords

AEQUORIN; CALCIUM; ETHYLENE GLYCOL 1,2 BIS(2 AMINOPHENYL) ETHER N,N,N',N' TETRAACETIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALIBRATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; LUMINESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0343550450     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9542     Document Type: Article

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