Bmp signaling is necessary and sufficient for ventrolateral endoderm specification in Xenopus

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 237, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2177-2186

  Wills, Andrea ^b   Dickinson, Kari ^a   Khokha, Mustafa ^c   Baker, Julie C ^a,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bmp; Endoderm; TGF ; Ventrolateral; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CERBERUS PROTEIN; CHORDIN; MIXER PROTEIN; NOGGIN; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX17BETA; VEGT PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN; XHEX PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; ENDODERM; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODERM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 49449090058     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21631     Document Type: Article

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