Transient activation of calcineurin is essential to initiate embryonic development in Xenopus laevis

Nature

Volumn 449, Issue 7160, 2007, Pages 341-345

  Nishiyama, Tomoko ^a   Yoshizaki, Norio ^b   Kishimoto, Takeo ^a   Ohsumi, Keita ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM ION; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 1;

CALCIUM; EGG; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); INHIBITION; PROTEIN; SPERM; TOAD; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CELL GRANULE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME INHIBITION; EXOCYTOSIS; FERTILIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 34548841712     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06136     Document Type: Article

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