Maternal Wnt11 activates the canonical Wnt signaling pathway required for axis formation in Xenopus embryos

Cell

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 857-871

  Tao, Qinghua ^a   Yokota, Chika ^a   Puck, Helbert ^a   Kofron, Matt ^a   Birsoy, Bilge ^a   Yan, Dong ^a   Asashima, Makoto ^b   Wylie, Christopher C ^a   Lin, Xinhua ^a   Heasman, Janet ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

EID: 20244382568     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2005.01.013     Document Type: Article

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