Ingression of primary mesenchyme cells of the sea urchin embryo: A precisely timed epithelial mesenchymal transition

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 241-252

  Wu, Shu Yu ^a   Ferkowicz, Michael ^b   McClay, David R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

FGF; Ingression; Invasion; Primary mesenchyme cells; Sea urchin; Snail; Twist; VEGF

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; CELL PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; MATRIX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

BLASTOMERE; CELL ADHESION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INVASION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOTILITY; DROSOPHILA; ECTODERM; ENDOCYTOSIS; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXOCYTOSIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SEQUENCE; GERM LAYER; LIVER; LUNG; MESENCHYME CELL; MESODERM; METASTASIS; MICROMERE; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS; PHENOTYPE; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEA URCHIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SNAIL; STEM CELL; TIME; TUMOR GROWTH; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOVEMENT; ENDOCYTOSIS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; EXOCYTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEA URCHINS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALIA; CNIDARIA; ECHINOIDEA; GASTROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 38749108849     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20113     Document Type: Review

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