Old wares and new: Five decades of investigation of somitogenesis in xenopus laevis

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 638, Issue , 2008, Pages 73-94

  Sparrow, Duncan B ^a  

^a VICTOR CHANG CARDIAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; EPHRIN; EPHRIN RECEPTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; OSTEONECTIN; RETINOIC ACID; VASODILATOR STIMULATED PHOSPHOPROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN;

CELL ADHESION; CELL POLARITY; CHICK; DERMIS; DEVELOPMENT; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; EMBRYOLOGY; ENDODERM; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MESODERM; METAMORPHOSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DEVELOPMENT; MYOTUBE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITE; SOMITOGENESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BODY PATTERNING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; RESEARCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATES; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 64749091031     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09606-3_4     Document Type: Review

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