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Activins are expressed early in Xenopus embryogenesis and can induce axial mesoderm and anterior structures
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Metadata
- Authors
- Thomsen, G., Woolf, T., Whitman, M., Sokol, S., Vaughan, J., Vale, W., & Melton, D. A.
- Venue
- Cell
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1990-11
- Volume
- 63
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 485-493
- ISSN
- 0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1978411854
- Cited by
- 592
- References
- 35
- FWCI
- 28.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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