High cell-autonomy of the anterior endomesoderm viewed in blastomere fate shift during regulative development in the isolated right halves of four-cell stage Xenopus embryos

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 717-729

  Koga, Masaaki ^a   Nakashima, Takuro ^a   Matsuo, Shintaro ^a   Takeya, Ryu ^b   Sumimoto, Hideki ^b   Sakai, Masao ^c   Kageura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior endomesoderm; Fate; Regulative development; Shift; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMA; CELL INTERACTION; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; LARVA; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOMITE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CELL COMMUNICATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; MESODERM; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84866627610     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2012.01372.x     Document Type: Article

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