9 The Role of Growth Factors in Embryonic Induction in Amphibians

Normal Table of Xenopus Laevis (Daudin)

1958 • 4,561 citations

Transforming growth factor-beta stimulates the expression of fibronectin and collagen and their incorporation into the extracellular matrix.

1986 • 2,499 citations

Models of biological pattern formation

1982 • 1,851 citations

The Cell in Development and Heredity

1925 • 1,750 citations

Gene Activity in Early Development

1968 • 1,725 citations

The structure and function of the homeodomain

1989 • 1,007 citations

Mesoderm induction in early Xenopus embryos by heparin-binding growth factors

1987 • 953 citations

Peptide growth factors are multifunctional

1988 • 835 citations

Purification and Complementary DNA Cloning of a Receptor for Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor

1989 • 660 citations

Expression of Xenopus N-CAM RNA in ectoderm is an early response to neural induction

1987 • 485 citations

Characterization of a membrane receptor for transforming growth factor-beta in normal rat kidney fibroblasts.

1984 • 477 citations

A community effect in animal development

1988 • 388 citations

Embryonic induction - molecular prospects

1987 • 381 citations

Regional expression, pattern and timing of convergence and extension during gastrulation ofXenopus laevis

1988 • 371 citations

The Presence of Fibroblast Growth Factor in the Frog Egg: Its Role as a Natural Mesoderm Inducer

1988 • 367 citations

Cell type-specific activation of actin genes in the early amphibian embryo

1984 • 354 citations

Monoclonal antibodies identify blastemal cells derived from dedifferentiating muscle in newt limb regeneration

1984 • 353 citations

Translocation of a localized maternal mRNA to the vegetal pole of Xenopus oocytes

1987 • 346 citations

�ber die Induktionsf�higkeit der verschiedenen Bezirke der Neurula von Urodelen

1933 • 301 citations

Early cellular interactions promote embryonic axis formation in Xenopus laevis

1984 • 291 citations

Regional specification within the mesoderm of early embryos of Xenopus laevis

1987 • 286 citations

From Egg to Embryo

1983 • 277 citations

Differential Gene Expression in the Gastrula of Xenopus laevis

1983 • 270 citations

Dorsalization and neural induction: properties of the organizer in Xenopus laevis.

1983 • 267 citations

Prevention of gastrulation but not neurulation by antibodies to fibronectin in amphibian embryos

1984 • 235 citations

Kinematics of gray crescent formation in Xenopus eggs: The displacement of subcortical cytoplasm relative to the egg surface

1986 • 230 citations

Determination of the dorsal-ventral axis in eggs of Xenopus laevis: Complete rescue of uv-impaired eggs by oblique orientation before first cleavage

1980 • 226 citations

Axis determination in eggs of Xenopus laevis: A critical period before first cleavage, identified by the common effects of cold, pressure and ultraviolet irradiation

1983 • 226 citations

A History of Embryology

1934 • 217 citations

Cell interactions and the control of gene activity during early development of Xenopus laevis

1986 • 213 citations

The development of animal cap cells in Xenopus: a measure of the start of animal cap competence to form mesoderm

1987 • 187 citations

Lithium-induced teratogenesis in frog embryos prevented by a polyphosphoinositide cycle intermediate or a diacylglycerol analog

1989 • 185 citations

Gastrulation movements provide an early marker of mesoderm induction in Xenopus laevis

1987 • 172 citations

Subcortical rotation in Xenopus eggs: An early step in embryonic axis specification

1987 • 162 citations

Mesoderm-inducing properties of INT-2 and kFGF: two oncogene-encoded growth factors related to FGF

1989 • 154 citations

Neural induction in explants which have passed through a sublethal cytolysis

1947 • 148 citations

Presence of basic fibroblast growth factor in the early Xenopus embryo

1989 • 144 citations

Acquisition of developmental autonomy in the equatorial region of the Xenopus embryo

1986 • 143 citations

Cell lineage and the induction of second nervous systems in amphibian development

1983 • 135 citations

Neural differentiation of ectoderm through exposure to saline solution

1944 • 133 citations

Xenopus laevis integrins. Structural conservation and evolutionary divergence of integrin beta subunits.

1988 • 126 citations

Establishment of a cell line (XTC-2) from the South African clawed toad,Xenopus laevis

1973 • 122 citations

Purification, partial characterization and biological effects of the XTC mesoderm-inducing factor

1988 • 118 citations

Induction of neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) in Xenopus embryos

1986 • 117 citations

Molecular approaches to developmental biology

1986 • 116 citations

Protein kinase C mediates neural induction in Xenopus laevis

1988 • 116 citations

Transforming growth factor β alters plasminogen activator activity in human skin fibroblasts

1986 • 114 citations

The characterization of the receptor for endothelial cell growth factor by covalent ligand attachment.

1986 • 111 citations

The organization of mesodermal pattern inXenopus laevis:experiments using aXenopusmesoderm-inducing factor

1987 • 110 citations

The 140-kDa fibronectin receptor complex is required for mesodermal cell adhesion during gastrulation in the amphibian Pleurodeles waltlii

1988 • 110 citations

Dorsalization of mesoderm induction by lithium

1989 • 109 citations

Development of neural inducing capacity in dissociated Xenopus embryos

1989 • 99 citations

Signals from the dorsal blastopore lip region during gastrulation bias the ectoderm toward a nonepidermal pathway of differentiation in Xenopus laevis

1989 • 77 citations

Expression of Epi 1, an epidermis-specific marker in Xenopus laevis embryos, is specified prior to gastrulation

1988 • 77 citations

Fibronectin visualized by scanning electron microscopy immunocytochemistry on the substratum for cell migration in Xenopus laevis gastrulae

1985 • 76 citations

Transcriptional regulation of a Xenopus embryonic epidermal keratin gene

1989 • 73 citations

Specific induction of secreted proteins by transforming growth factor-beta and 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate. Relationship with an inhibitor of plasminogen activator.

1987 • 72 citations

Stage-specific keratins in Xenopus laevis embryos and tadpoles: the XK81 gene family.

1986 • 65 citations

Mesoderm induction in Xenopus laevis. responding cells must be in contact for mesoderm formation but suppression of epidermal differentiation can occur in single cells

1988 • 58 citations

Developmental expression of a neurofilament-M and two vimentin-like genes in Xenopus laevis

1988 • 56 citations

Changes in states of commitment of single animal pole blastomeres of Xenopus laevis

1987 • 55 citations

Expression of an Epidermal Antigen Used to Study Tissue Induction in the Early Xenopus laevis Embryo

1986 • 54 citations

Cell lineage analysis of neural induction: Origins of cells forming the induced nervous system

1984 • 51 citations

Presumptive mesoderm cells from Xenopus laevis gastrulae attach to and migrate on substrata coated with fibronectin or laminin

1986 • 49 citations

Differential gene expression in the anterior neural plate during gastrulation of Xenopus laevis

1989 • 47 citations

Gastrulation and larval pattern in Xenopus after blastocoelic injection of a Xenopus-derived inducing factor: Experiments testing models for the normal organization of mesoderm

1989 • 43 citations

Localization of specific mRNA sequences in Xenopus laevis embryos by in situ hybridization

1986 • 42 citations

Potentiation by the lithium ion of morphogenetic responses to a Xenopus inducing factor

1989 • 37 citations

Effect of Concanavalin A and vegetalizing factor on the outer and inner ectoderm layers of early gastrulae of Xenopus laevis after treatment with Cytochalasin B

1985 • 28 citations

The accumulation of prominent tadpole mRNAs occurs at the beginning of neurulation in Xenopus laevis embryos

1984 • 26 citations

Xenopus laeviscement gland as an experimental model for embryonic differentiation

1975 • 25 citations

The hunting of the organizer: an episode in biochemical embryology

1985 • 25 citations

Patterns of N-CAM expression during myogenesis in Xenopus laevis

1988 • 19 citations

Xenopus laevis cement gland as an experimental model for embryonic differentiation. II. The competence of embryonic cells.

1975 • 18 citations

Gene structure and regulation in development

1983 • 14 citations

Close juxtaposition between inducing chordamesoderm and reacting neuroectoderm is a prerequisite for neural induction in Xenopus laevis

1988 • 10 citations

States of determination of single cells transplanted between 512-Cell Xenopus embryos

1989 • 8 citations