Transitions between epithelial and mesenchymal states and the morphogenesis of the early mouse embryo

Cell Adhesion and Migration

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 440-450

  Ferrer Vaquer, Anna ^a   Viotti, Manuel ^a,b   Hadjantonakis, Anna Katerina ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

EMT; Endoderm; Epiblast; Gastrulation; Mesoderm; MET; Morphogenesis; Mouse embryo; Paraxial mesoderm; Primitive streak; Somitogenesis

Indexed keywords

EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EPITHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIZATION; GASTRULATION; GERM LAYER; MESENCHYME CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE EMBRYO; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SOMITOGENESIS;

METAZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77956476869     PISSN: 19336918     EISSN: 19336926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cam.4.3.12000     Document Type: Review

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