Signal transduction during C. elegans vulval development: A NeverEnding story

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 32, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-9

  Schmid, Tobias ^a   Hajnal, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; NOTCH RECEPTOR; WNT PROTEIN;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ANCHORAGE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL FATE; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; EPITHELIUM; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; STEM CELL; VULVA; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL LINEAGE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGANOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VULVA;

EID: 84922364443     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2015.01.006     Document Type: Review

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