Establishment of left-right asymmetry in vertebrate development: The node in mouse embryos

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 4659-4666

  Komatsu, Yoshihiro ^a,b   Mishina, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Cilia; Growth factor signaling; Left right determination; Node

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR 1; CELL PROTEIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 1B; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; POLYCYSTIN 2; PROTEIN FOXJ1; PROTEIN RFX3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; CELL CYCLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL POLARITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CILIARY MOTILITY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LAMINAR FLOW; LEFT RIGHT ASYMMETRY; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE EMBRYO; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CILIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NODAL PROTEIN; ORGANIZERS, EMBRYONIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84889882087     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-013-1399-9     Document Type: Review

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