Heading forwards: Anterior visceral endoderm migration in patterning the mouse embryo

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1657, 2014, Pages

  Stower, Matthew J ^a   Srinivas, Shankar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anterior visceral endoderm; Cell migration; Embryonic patterning; Epithelial cell movement

Indexed keywords

EMBRYO; GERM CELL; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; RODENT; SIGNALING; STEREOTYPIC BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; ENDODERM; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENDODERM; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84908249041     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0546     Document Type: Review

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