Xenopus Pax-2 displays multiple splice forms during embryogenesis and pronephric kidney development

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 69, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 83-104

  Heller, Nicole ^a   Brändli, André W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Paired box genes; Pax 2; Pronephric kidney; Xenopus embryogenesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; KIDNEY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SENSE ORGANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0345451005     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(97)00158-5     Document Type: Article

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