Brachyury cooperates with Wnt/β-catenin signalling to elicit primitive-streak-like behaviour in differentiating mouse embryonic stem cells

BMC Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Turner, David A ^a   Rué, Pau ^a   Mackenzie, Jonathan P ^a   Davies, Eleanor ^a   Martinez Arias, Alfonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

activin; brachyury; EMT; epithelial to mesenchymal transition; live cell imaging; mesendoderm; mouse embryonic stem cell; nodal; primitive streak; Wnt; catenin

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; BRACHYURY PROTEIN; CTNNB1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; FETOPROTEIN; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; C57BL MOUSE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PRIMITIVE STREAK; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PRIMITIVE STREAK; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84907912050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-014-0063-7     Document Type: Article

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