Dynamics of anterior-posterior axis formation in the developing mouse embryo

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Morris, Samantha A ^a,c   Grewal, Seema ^a   Barrios, Florencia ^a   Patankar, Sameer N ^b   Strauss, Bernhard ^a   Buttery, Lee ^b   Alexander, Morgan ^b   Shakesheff, Kevin M ^b   Zernicka Goetz, Magdalena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ANTERIOR VISCERAL ENDODERM; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO POLARITY; ENDODERM; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; TIME; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; BODY PATTERNING; CELL MOVEMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENDODERM; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84857747441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1671     Document Type: Article

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