Definitive endoderm of the mouse embryo: Formation, cell fates, and morphogenetic function

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 235, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2315-2329

  Lewis, Samara L ^a   Tam, Patrick P L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b University of Sydney   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cell fate; Definitive endoderm; Morphogenesis; Mouse embryo; Tissue patterning

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3BETA; HOX PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2;

CELL FATE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENDODERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; HISTOLOGY; HOX GENE; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE MUTANT; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PHARYNX; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENDODERM; FEMALE; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEAD; MICE; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PREGNANCY; STEM CELLS;

EID: 33746903357     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20846     Document Type: Review

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