Signalling dynamics in vertebrate segmentation

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 709-721

  Hubaud, Alexis ^a,b   Pourquié, Olivier ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NOTCH RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK; WNT PROTEIN;

CELL INTERACTION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; METABOLISM; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIMITIVE STREAK; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITE; VERTEBRATE; VERTEBRATE SEGMENTATION; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MORPHOGENESIS;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BODY PATTERNING; CLOCK PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATES; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 84908222357     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3891     Document Type: Review

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