Gap junctions relay FGF8-mediated right-sided repression of nodal in rabbit

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 237, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3516-3527

  Feistel, Kerstin ^a,b   Blum, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

FGF8; Gap junctions; Heptanol; Left right asymmetry; Rabbit

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL JUNCTION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO INDUCTION; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; EXPLANT; FEMALE; GASTRULA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESODERM; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CONNEXIN 43; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEPTANOL; MESODERM; NODAL PROTEIN; RABBITS;

ANURA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 57149116537     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21535     Document Type: Article

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