Morphogen gradients: From generation to interpretation

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 27, Issue , 2011, Pages 377-407

  Rogers, Katherine W ^a   Schier, Alexander F ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Embryo; Patterning

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; HEPARAN SULFATE; MORPHOGEN; PROTEOGLYCAN;

ARTICLE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE TARGETING; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL COMMUNICATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 80054020133     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: 15308995     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-cellbio-092910-154148     Document Type: Article

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