Wnt signaling specifies and patterns intestinal endoderm

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 128, Issue 7-10, 2011, Pages 387-400

  Sherwood, Richard I ^d   Maehr, Rene ^a   Mazzoni, Esteban O ^b   Melton, Douglas A ^c  

^a Harvard University   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryonic stem cell differentiation; Endoderm; Intestinal development

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDODERM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTESTINE; LARGE INTESTINE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMALL INTESTINE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENDODERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTESTINE, LARGE; INTESTINE, SMALL; MICE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; WNT PROTEINS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 82855161367     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: 18726356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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