Region-specific regulation of posterior axial elongation during vertebrate embryogenesis

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 88-98

  Neijts, Roel ^a   Simmini, Salvatore ^a   Giuliani, Fabrizio ^a   van Rooijen, Carina ^a   Deschamps, Jacqueline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Axial progenitors for trunk tissues; Posterior body elongation; Transcription factors and signaling pathways in axial growth; Vertebrate axial growth

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; WNT PROTEIN;

BODY GROWTH; BODY REGIONS; CELL FATE; CELL RENEWAL; CHICK; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH REGULATION; MESODERM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; POSTERIOR AXIAL ELONGATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL EXPANSION; STEM CELL NICHE; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

AXIAL PROGENITORS FOR TRUNK TISSUES; POSTERIOR BODY ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS AND SIGNALING PATHWAYS IN AXIAL GROWTH; VERTEBRATE AXIAL GROWTH;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84890859261     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.24027     Document Type: Review

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