FoxD3 regulation of Nodal in the Spemann organizer is essential for Xenopus dorsal mesoderm development

Development

Volumn 133, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 4827-4838

  Steiner, Aaron B ^a   Engleka, Mark J ^a   Lu, Qun ^a   Piwarzyk, Eileen C ^a   Yaklichkin, Sergey ^a   Lefebvre, Julie L ^a   Walters, James W ^a   Pineda Salgado, Liliam ^a   Labosky, Patricia A ^a,b   Kessler, Daniel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forkhead; FoxD3; Mesoderm; Nodal; Transcription; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN NODAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXD3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GASTRULA; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CHORDATA; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESODERM; ORGANIZERS, EMBRYONIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33846173923     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02663     Document Type: Article

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