Demystifying the Effects of a Three-Dimensional Microenvironment in Tissue Morphogenesis

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 83, Issue , 2007, Pages 547-583

  Johnson, Kandice R ^a   Leight, Jennifer L ^a   Weaver, Valerie M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CATTLE; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT; REVIEW; UDDER;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MORPHOGENESIS; PROTEINS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 34347205288     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(07)83023-8     Document Type: Review

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