Using Xenopus Embryos to Investigate Integrin Function

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 426, Issue , 2007, Pages 403-414

  DeSimone, Douglas W ^a   Dzamba, Bette ^a   Davidson, Lance A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; FIBRONECTIN; INTEGRIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOSKELETON; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXPLANT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GASTRULATION; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; GASTRULA; METABOLISM; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOSKELETON; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBRONECTINS; GASTRULA; INTEGRINS; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

EID: 35148838077     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(07)26017-3     Document Type: Review

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