Article
TGF alpha can act as a chemoattractant to perioptic mesenchymal cells in developing mouse eyes.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Jun 1995
Reneker L W, Silversides D W, Patel K, Overbeek P A
Abstract excerpt
Growth factors are believed to play an important role in regulating cell fate and cell behavior during embryonic development. Transforming growth factor alpha (TGF alpha), a member of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) superfamily, is a small polypeptide growth factor. Upon binding to its receptor...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cell Movement
- Chemotactic Factors
- DNA Primers
- ErbB Receptors
- Eye
- In Situ Hybridization
- Lens, Crystalline
- Mesoderm
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Morphogenesis
- Phenotype
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Transforming Growth Factor alpha