Analysis of Growth Factor Signaling in Embryos: 8 (Methods in Signal Transduction Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 084933165X ISBN 13: 9780849331657

Publisher: CRC Press, 2006

Synopsis

Developmental biologists have been driven to investigate growth factor signaling in embryos in order to understand the regulatory mechanisms underlying a given developmental process. Thus, it is critical to explore the technical methods and experimental designs for growth factor signaling in embryos.

Focusing on specific pathways or pathway components, Analysis of Growth Factor Signaling in Embryos provides the methods and guidelines for experimental design to study major aspects of cell signaling in vertebrate embryos. The book covers a broad range of topics in signaling and a variety of current model organisms. Section I explores specific signaling pathways or pathway components. In this section, some chapters highlight the biochemistry of signaling pathways during development, which is often distinctive from that observed in cell culture systems. Section II discusses ionic regulatory mechanisms and the two chapters in Section III examine ways of investigating gene regulation in response to extracellular signals. Finally, Section IV addresses emerging strategies that facilitate integrated analyses of cell signaling in vivo in embryonic systems.

Featuring contributions from expert researchers, Analysis of Growth Factor Signaling in Embryos will provide a foundation for further explorations of the cellular regulatory mechanisms governing vertebrate embryonic development.

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Malcolm Whitman, Amy Sater

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 084933165X
• ISBN 13: 9780849331657
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 435
• Editor: Whitman Malcolm, Sater Amy