Insights into the establishment of left-right asymmetries in vertebrates

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 81-94

  Raya, Ángel ^a,b   Belmonte, Juan Carlos Izpisúa ^a,c  

^a CENTER OF REGENERATIVE MEDICINE IN BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryo node; Embryogenesis; Left right organizer; Nodal; Nodal flow

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMITE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MAMMALS; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 46849099629     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20122     Document Type: Review

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