Xenopus hairy2b specifies anterior prechordal mesoderm identity within spemann's organizer

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 234, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 102-113

  Yamaguti, Mami ^a   Cho, Ken W Y ^b   Hashimoto, Chikara ^a,c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JT Biohistory Research Hall ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Organizer; Prechordal mesoderm; Xenopus; Xhairy2b

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; ENDODERM; GASTRULA; GASTRULATION; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPEMANN ORGANIZER; XENOPUS; XHAIRY2B GENE;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GASTRULA; HEAD; MESODERM; ORGANIZERS, EMBRYONIC; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 23944484424     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20523     Document Type: Article

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