The role of Mixer in patterning the early Xenopus embryo

Development

Volumn 131, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2431-2441

  Kofron, Matt ^a   Wylie, Chris ^a   Heasman, Janet ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense oligo; Endoderm; Mesoderm; Mixer; Morpholino; VegT

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LIGAND; MESSENGER RNA; MIXER PROTEIN; MORPHOLINE DERIVATIVE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR VEGT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENDODERM; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM LAYER; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; UPREGULATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ABNORMALITIES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTULA; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENDODERM; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 3042830446     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01132     Document Type: Article

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