Absence of Nodal signaling promotes precocious neural differentiation in the mouse embryo

Developmental Biology

Volumn 295, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 743-755

  Camus, Anne ^a   Perea Gomez, Aitana ^a   Moreau, Anne ^a   Collignon, Jérôme ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

Anterior visceral endoderm; Epiblast cell fate determination; Forebrain patterning; Gastrulation; Neural induction; Neurogenesis; Nodal signaling; Organizer; Pregastrula mouse embryo

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3BETA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN GSC; PROTEIN NODAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL CULTURE; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FOREBRAIN; GASTRULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 33745256758     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.03.047     Document Type: Article

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