Growth factors and early mesoderm morphogenesis: Insights from the sea urchin embryo

Genesis

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 158-172

  Adomako Ankomah, Ashrifia ^a,b   Ettensohn, Charles A ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

FGF; Gastrulation, sea urchin; Growth factors; Mesoderm cell migration; Mesoderm differentiation; Primary mesenchyme cells; Skeletogenesis; VEGF

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; GROWTH FACTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR A; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 3;

AMPHIPHOLIS KOCHII; ANGIOGENESIS; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BIOMINERALIZATION; BLASTOCOELAR CELL; BLASTULA; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE GROWTH; CELL MIGRATION; CELL TYPE; DIMERIZATION; ECHINODERM; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM CELL; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MESENCHYME CELL; MESODERM; MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PARACENTROTUS LIVIDUS; PATIRIA PECTINIFERA; PIGMENT CELL; PRIMARY MESENCHYME CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEA URCHIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STARFISH; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS; UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELL;

ECHINOIDEA; VERTEBRATA;

FGF; GASTRULATION, SEA URCHIN; GROWTH FACTORS; MESODERM CELL MIGRATION; MESODERM DIFFERENTIATION; PRIMARY MESENCHYME CELLS; SKELETOGENESIS; VEGF;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; SEA URCHINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84896493822     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.22746     Document Type: Review

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