Default neural induction: Neuralization of dissociated Xenopus cells is mediated by Ras/MAPK activation

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1022-1027

  Kuroda, Hiroki ^a,b   Fuentealba, Luis ^a   Ikeda, Atsushi ^a   Reversade, Bruno ^a   De Robertis, E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

BMP; FGF; IGF; MAPK; Neural induction; Smad1

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; RAS PROTEIN; SMAD1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; NERVOUS SYSTEM; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RAS PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD PROTEINS; STAINING AND LABELING; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 18244372451     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1306605     Document Type: Article

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