Signaling and transcriptional regulation in neural crest specification and migration: Lessons from xenopus embryos

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Developmental Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 247-259

  Pegoraro, Caterina ^a,b   Monsoro Burq, Anne H ^a,b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; EPHRIN B2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 4; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PLEXIN A1; PROTEIN CDC42; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE 7; SYNDECAN 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GBX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HAIRY2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MEIS3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MSX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX7; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SLUG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX10; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFAP2A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ZIC1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED FACTOR 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; WNT11 PROTEIN; WNT7B PROTEIN; WNT8 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMOTAXIS; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SUMOYLATION; TISSUE INTERACTION; XENOPUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CELL MOTION; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANURA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CELL MOVEMENT; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; NEURAL CREST; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84875843952     PISSN: 17597684     EISSN: 17597692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wdev.76     Document Type: Article

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