Unexpected activities of Smad7 in Xenopus mesodermal and neural induction

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 125, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 421-431

  de Almeida, Irene ^a   Rolo, Ana ^a   Batut, Julie ^b   Hill, Caroline ^b   Stern, Claudio D ^a   Linker, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BMP; Chick; Chicken; FGF; Hedgehog; Neural induction; Nodal; Retinoic acid; Smad6; Smad7; TGF ; Wnt; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BRACHYURY PROTEIN; CHORDIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN; PROTEIN NODAL; RETINOID; SMAD1 PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD7 PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; OOCYTES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD6 PROTEIN; SMAD7 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRETINOIN; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 41949084151     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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