Wnt6 expression in epidermis and epithelial tissues during Xenopus organogenesis

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 237, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 768-779

  Lavery, Danielle L ^a   Davenport, Ian R ^a,c   Turnbull, Yvonne D ^a   Wheeler, Grant N ^b   Hoppler, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ectoderm; Endocardium; Epicardium; Epidermis; Epithelial; Eye; Gut; Heart; Intestine; Kidney; Lens; Organogenesis; Pharynx; Pigmented epithelial cells; Pronephric tubules; Pronephros; Proximal tubules; Retina; Somites; Wnt6

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; WNT6 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EPIDERMIS; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SKIN EPITHELIUM; VERTEBRATE; WNT6 GENE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EPIDERMIS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANOGENESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 40849118261     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21440     Document Type: Article

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