Can morphogen activity be enhanced by its inhibitors?

Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1729-1733

  Kao, Justin C ^a,b   Nie, Qing ^a   Teng, Angie ^a   Wan, Frederic Y M ^a   Lander, Arthur D ^a   Marsh, J Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

DPP; Ligand receptor; Morphogen gradient; SOG

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS; DROSOPHILA EMBRYOS; LIGAND RECEPTORS; LIGAND-RECEPTOR; MORPHOGEN GRADIENTS;

LIGANDS;

EID: 84941627071     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008044046-0.50422-X     Document Type: Chapter

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