Consistent left-right asymmetry cannot be established by late organizers in Xenopus unless the late organizer is a conjoined twin

Development

Volumn 137, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1095-1105

  Vandenberg, Laura N ^a   Levin, Michael ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjoined twins; Heterotaxia; Left right asymmetry; Midline; Organizer; Siamois; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM CHLORIDE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LEFT RIGHT DETERMINATION FACTOR; SIAMOIS PROTEIN, XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CONJOINED TWINS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYO INDUCTION; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SITUS INVERSUS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANURA;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEFT-RIGHT DETERMINATION FACTORS; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; ORGANIZERS, EMBRYONIC; SITUS INVERSUS; TWINS, CONJOINED; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 77950470787     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.041798     Document Type: Article

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