Mechanisms of left-right asymmetry: what's right and what's left?

Dev Cell. 2001 Aug;1(2):179-86. doi: 10.1016/s1534-5807(01)00036-3.

Abstract

A recent meeting at the Juan March Foundation in Madrid, Spain, covered current understanding of the pathways and mechanisms involved in generating left-right asymmetry.

Publication types

  • Congress

MeSH terms

  • Activins / physiology
  • Animals
  • Biological Evolution
  • Chick Embryo
  • Dominance, Cerebral*
  • Functional Laterality*
  • Humans
  • Mice
  • Models, Biological
  • Proteins / physiology
  • Signal Transduction
  • Transcription Factors*
  • Transforming Growth Factor beta / metabolism
  • Zebrafish

Substances

  • INVS protein, human
  • Invs protein, mouse
  • Proteins
  • Transcription Factors
  • Transforming Growth Factor beta
  • Activins