The left-right polarity puzzle: Determining embryonic handedness

PLoS Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1348-1351

  Wood, William B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; TARTARIC ACID;

BLASTOMERE; CHIRALITY; EMBRYO POLARITY; EMBRYOLOGY; ENANTIOMER; HUMAN; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MUTATION; OOCYTE; POLARIZATION; PROBABILITY; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEREOSPECIFICITY; ZYGOTE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 23944461573     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030292     Document Type: Short Survey

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