The Vg1-related protein Gdf3 acts in a Nodal signaling pathway in the pre-gastrulation mouse embryo

Development

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 319-329

  Chen, Canhe ^a   Ware, Stephanie M ^b   Sato, Akira ^c   Houston Hawkins, Dianne E ^d   Habas, Raymond ^c   Matzuk, Martin M ^d   Shen, Michael M ^a   Brown, Chester W ^d  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior visceral endoderm; EGF CFC proteins; Mesendoderm formation; Tgf signaling

Indexed keywords

CELL RECEPTOR; CRIPTO PROTEIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 3; GROWTH FACTOR; LEFTY PROTEIN; LIGAND; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; PROTEIN NODAL; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; ENDODERM; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; INNER CELL MASS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; ORGANOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISCERA; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTOCYST; BODY PATTERNING; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENDODERM; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 32244439642     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02210     Document Type: Article

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