Migrating anterior mesoderm cells and intercalating trunk mesoderm cells have distinct responses to Rho and Rac during Xenopus gastrulation

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 235, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1090-1099

  Ren, Ruiyi ^a   Nagel, Martina ^b   Tahinci, Emilios ^c   Winklbauer, Rudi ^b   Symes, Karen ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior mesendoderm; Cell motility; Gastrulation; Head mesoderm; Rac; Rho; Rho GTPases; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

RAC PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; RHO GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL POLE; ANTERIOR MESENDODERM; ANTERIOR MESODERM CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCOEL; BLASTULA; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL POLARITY; CELL PROTRUSIVE ACTIVITY; CELL SHAPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENDODERM; EXPLANT; GASTRULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEAD; INTERCALATING TRUNK MESODERM CELL; LAMELLIPODIUM; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL POLARITY; CELL SIZE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GASTRULA; MESODERM; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33645469729     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20711     Document Type: Article

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