Gastrulation movements: The logic and the nuts and bolts

Developmental Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 305-320

  Leptin, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CHEMOATTRACTANT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL ADHESION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SHAPE; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA; EGG YOLK; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM CELL; GASTRULATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GERM LAYER; MESENCHYME CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SHAPE; GASTRULA; GERM LAYERS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 14644399248     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2005.02.007     Document Type: Review

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