Self-organization of vertebrate mesoderm based on simple boundary conditions

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 231, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 576-581

  Green, Jeremy B A ^a,b   Dominguez, Isabel ^a,b,d   Davidson, Lance A ^c  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Activin; Convergent extension; Gastrulation; Hoop stress; Polarity; Vegetal alignment zone; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GEOMETRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INVOLUTION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SEA URCHIN; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; GASTRULA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MESODERM; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOTOCHORD; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VERTEBRATES; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ECHINOIDEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 6944244857     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20163     Document Type: Article

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