Antagonism of Nodal signaling by BMP/Smad5 prevents ectopic primitive streak formation in the mouse amnion

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 139, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 3343-3354

  Pereira, Paulo N G ^a   Dobreva, Mariya P ^a   Maas, Elke ^a   Cornelis, Frederique M ^a   Moya, Iván M ^a   Umans, Lieve ^a   Verfaillie, Catherine M ^a   Camus, Anne ^b   de Sousa Lopes, Susana M Chuva ^c   Huylebroeck, Danny ^a   Zwijsen, An ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amnion; Bone Morphogenetic Protein; Mouse; Nodal; Primitive streak; Smad

Indexed keywords

NODAL SIGNALING PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; SMAD5 PROTEIN; WNT3 PROTEIN;

AMNION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL, AGE AND GROWTH PARAMETERS; ECTOPIC PRIMITIVE STREAK; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROXIMITY LIGATION ASSAY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; WHOLE MOUNT IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION;

AMNION; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CELL LINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; NODAL PROTEIN; PREGNANCY; PRIMITIVE STREAK; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMAD5 PROTEIN;

EID: 84865261147     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.075465     Document Type: Article

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