Intercellular interactions, position, and polarity in establishing blastocyst cell lineages and embryonic axes

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Stephenson, Robert O ^a,b   Rossant, Janet ^a,b   Tam, Patrick P L ^c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; HIPPO PROTEIN, MOUSE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POLARITY; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; BODY PATTERNING; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POLARITY; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; MICE; MORPHOGENESIS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84868591105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a008235     Document Type: Article

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