A truncated activin receptor inhibits mesoderm induction and formation of axial structures in Xenopus embryos

Normal Table of Xenopus Laevis (Daudin)

1958 • 4,561 citations

A major developmental transition in early xenopus embryos: I. characterization and timing of cellular changes at the midblastula stage

1982 • 1,635 citations

Functional messenger RNAs are produced by SP6in vitrotranscription of cloned cDNAs

1984 • 1,533 citations

Functional inactivation of genes by dominant negative mutations

1987 • 1,174 citations

Expression of a dominant negative mutant of the FGF receptor disrupts mesoderm formation in xenopus embryos

1991 • 1,103 citations

Expression of a xenopus homolog of Brachyury (T) is an immediate-early response to mesoderm induction

1991 • 980 citations

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

1987 • 953 citations

Synergistic induction of mesoderm by FGF and TGF-β and the identification of an mRNA coding for FGF in the early xenopus embryo

1987 • 883 citations

Molecular nature of Spemann's organizer: the role of the Xenopus homeobox gene goosecoid

1991 • 799 citations

Identification of a potent Xenopus mesoderm-inducing factor as a homologue of activin A

1990 • 660 citations

Injected Xwnt-8 RNA acts early in Xenopus embryos to promote formation of a vegetal dorsalizing center

1991 • 651 citations

Activins are expressed early in Xenopus embryogenesis and can induce axial mesoderm and anterior structures

1990 • 600 citations

Bone morphogenetic protein 4: a ventralizing factor in early Xenopus development

1992 • 573 citations

Ectopic expression of the proto-oncogene int-1 in Xenopus embryos leads to duplication of the embryonic axis

1989 • 518 citations

Graded changes in dose of a Xenopus activin A homologue elicit stepwise transitions in embryonic cell fate

1990 • 508 citations

Injected Wnt RNA induces a complete body axis in Xenopus embryos

1991 • 501 citations

DVR-4 (Bone Morphogenetic Protein-4) as a posterior-ventralizing factor in Xenopus mesoderm induction

1992 • 488 citations

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

1987 • 485 citations

The formation of the mesoderm in urodelean amphibians

1969 • 472 citations

Mesoderm Induction in Amphibians: the Role of TGF-β2-Like Factors

1988 • 452 citations

The mRNA encoding elongation factor 1-α (EF-1α) is a major transcript at the midblastula transition in Xenopus

1989 • 395 citations

Xenopus laevis: Practical Uses in Cell and Molecular Biology

1991 • 391 citations

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

1988 • 371 citations

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

1984 • 354 citations

Localization of specific mRNAs in Xenopus embryos by whole-mount in situ hybridization

1990 • 323 citations

Mix.1, a homeobox mRNA inducible by mesoderm inducers, is expressed mostly in the presumptive endodermal cells of Xenopus embryos

1989 • 316 citations

Progressive determination during formation of the anteroposterior axis in Xenopus laevis

1989 • 305 citations

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

1933 • 301 citations

A mesoderm-inducing factor is produced by a Xenopus cell line

1987 • 276 citations

Expression of an engrailed-related protein is induced in the anterior neural ectoderm of early Xenopus embryos

1989 • 258 citations

Cloning of a Second Type of Activin Receptor and Functional Characterization in Xenopus Embryos

1992 • 226 citations

Retinoic acid modifies mesodermal patterning in early Xenopus embryos.

1991 • 221 citations

The biological effects of XTC-MIF: quantitative comparison with Xenopus bFGF

1990 • 220 citations

Pattern Formation During Animal Development

1991 • 199 citations

Pre-existent pattern in Xenopus animal pole cells revealed by induction with activin

1991 • 194 citations

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

1987 • 172 citations

Follistatin, an activin-binding protein, associates with heparan sulfate chains of proteoglycans on follicular granulosa cells.

1991 • 167 citations

Presence of activin (erythroid differentiation factor) in unfertilized eggs and blastulae of Xenopus laevis.

1991 • 151 citations

Region-Specific Neural Induction of an engrailed Protein by Anterior Notochord in Xenopus

1990 • 145 citations

Cell rearrangement and segmentation in Xenopus: direct observation of cultured explants

1989 • 133 citations

A Mouse Macrophage Factor Induces Head Structures and Organizes a Body Axis in Xenopus

1990 • 130 citations

Posterior expression of a homeobox gene in early Xenopus embryos

1987 • 117 citations

The induction of anterior and posterior neural genes in Xenopus laevis

1990 • 110 citations

Hensen’s node induces neural tissue in Xenopus ectoderm. Implications for the action of the organizer in neural induction

1991 • 98 citations

Molecular and cellular aspects of patterning sensory neurone connections in the vertebrate nervous system

1987 • 94 citations

Activin receptor mRNA is expressed early in Xenopus embryogenesis and the level of the expression affects the body axis formation

1991 • 87 citations

Isolation of cDNAs partially encoding four Xenopus - proteins and characterization of their transient expression during embryonic development

1991 • 77 citations

Transcriptional regulation of a Xenopus embryonic epidermal keratin gene

1989 • 73 citations

Axial patterning and the establishment of polarity in the frog embryo

1990 • 63 citations

Nuclear translocation of fibroblast growth factor during Xenopus mesoderm induction

1991 • 59 citations

The vegetalizing factor belongs to a family of mesoderm-inducing proteins related to erythroid differentiation factor

1990 • 51 citations