Mesoderm induction in Xenopus is a zygotic event regulated by maternal VegT via TGFβ growth factors

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 5759-5770

  Kofron, Matt ^a   Demel, Teresa ^a   Xanthos, Jenny ^a   Lohr, Jamie ^b   Sun, Benjamin ^e   Sive, Hazel ^c   Osada, Shin Ichi ^d   Wright, Chris ^d   Wylie, Chris ^b   Heasman, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Growth factor; Induction; Mesoderm; VegT; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 3; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 18744431466     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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