Dorsoventral patterning in Xenopus: inhibition of ventral signals by direct binding of chordin to BMP-4.

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Published in Cell on August 23, 1996

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S Piccolo1, Y Sasai, B Lu, E M De Robertis

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1: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles 90035-1737, USA.

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