Xenopus brain factor-2 controls mesoderm, forebrain and neural crest development

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-27

  Gómez Skarmeta, José Luis ^a   De La Calle Mustienes, Elisa ^a   Modolell, Juan ^b   Mayor, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mesoderm; Neural crest; Neural induction; Xbf2; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XENOPUS BRAIN FACTOR 2;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; DIENCEPHALON; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FOREBRAIN; GASTRULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; MESODERM; NEURAL CREST; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELENCEPHALON; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GALACTOSIDES; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INDOLES; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL CREST; PROSENCEPHALON; TIME FACTORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0345683537     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00190-7     Document Type: Article

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