Chordin forms a self-organizing morphogen gradient in the extracellular space between ectoderm and mesoderm in the Xenopus embryo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 51, 2013, Pages 20372-20379

  Plouhinec, Jean Louis ^a,b,c   Zakin, Lise ^a,b   Moriyama, Yuki ^a,b   De Robertis, Edward M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORDIN; MORPHOGEN; MORPHOLINO OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BRACHET CLEFT; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GASTRULA; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; XENOPUS;

EID: 84890851153     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319745110     Document Type: Article

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