Differential adhesion leads to segregation and exclusion of N-cadherin-deficient cells in chimeric embryos

Developmental Biology

Volumn 234, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 72-79

  Kostetskii, Igor ^a   Moore, Robert ^b,c   Kemler, Rolf ^b   Radice, Glenn L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Cell adhesion; Cell rearrangement; Morphogenesis; Tissue segregation

Indexed keywords

NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; CHIMERA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0343773154     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2001.0250     Document Type: Article

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