Nodal specifies embryonic visceral endoderm and sustains pluripotent cells in the epiblast before overt axial patterning

Development

Volumn 133, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 2497-2505

  Mesnard, Daniel ^a   Guzman Ayala, Marcela ^a   Constam, Daniel B ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Axis specification; Differentiation; Implantation; Mouse; Oct4; Stem cells; TGF

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FURIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PROTEIN NODAL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENDODERM; GENE ACTIVATION; GERM LAYER; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CADHERINS; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENDODERM; FEMALE; LAMININ; MICE; OVUM; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; RECEPTORS, CXCR4; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISCERA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33746435907     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02413     Document Type: Article

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