Extra-embryonic Wnt3 regulates the establishment of the primitive streak in mice

Developmental Biology

Volumn 403, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 80-88

  Yoon, Yeonsoo ^a   Huang, Tingting ^a   Tortelote, Giovane G ^a,e   Wakamiya, Maki ^b   Hadjantonakis, Anna Katerina ^c   Behringer, Richard R ^d   Rivera Pérez, Jaime A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e Centro Universitario Celso Lisboa   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Axial specification; Embryo; Gastrulation; Mouse; Primitive streak; Wnt3

Indexed keywords

WNT3 PROTEIN; WNT3 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; GASTRULATION; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS;

MAMMALIA; MUS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; ENDODERM; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; PRIMITIVE STREAK; WNT3 PROTEIN;

EID: 84931578846     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2015.04.008     Document Type: Article

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