Snail2 controls mesodermal bmp/wnt induction of neural crest

Development

Volumn 138, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 3135-3145

  Shi, Jianli ^a   Severson, Courtney ^a   Yang, Jianxia ^a,c   Wedlich, Doris ^a,b   Klymkowsky, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

BMP; Mesoderm; Neural crest induction; Slug; Snail1; Snail2; Twist1; Wnt; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; RNA; WNT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EXPLANT; GASTRULATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MESODERM; MUTANT; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAIL2 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TWIST1 GENE; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; HUMANS; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURAL CREST; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS (GENUS); XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 79960195435     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.064394     Document Type: Article

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