Monitoring smad activity in vivo using the xenopus model system

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1344, Issue , 2016, Pages 245-259

  Montagner, Marco ^a   Martello, Graziano ^a   Piccolo, Stefano ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Animal cap explants; BMP; Mesoderm and neural induction; Smad; TGF ; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; MORPHOLINO OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA; SMAD PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; LIGAND;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXPLANT; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NONMAMMALIAN EMBRYO; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGANDS; PHENOTYPE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMAD PROTEINS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84946601128     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2966-5_15     Document Type: Chapter

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