TY - JOUR TI - Developmental tumours, early differentiation and the transforming growth factor beta superfamily. AU - Mummery, C L AU - van den Eijnden-van Raaij, A J T2 - The International Journal of Developmental Biology AB - Embryonal carcinoma and embryonic stem cells have been very useful models for identifying some of the factors that regulate differentiation in early mammalian development. Here, we present a brief history of their original isolation and characterization and of their later introduction into the Hubrecht Laboratory. We illustrate in a review their contribution to our current understanding of the function of transforming growth factor beta and ligands binding to the receptors of a related factor, activin, in development with some of our own work. PY - 1999 VL - 43 IS - 7 SP - 693 EP - 709 J2 - Int. J. Dev. Biol. LA - en SN - 0214-6282 SN - 1696-3547 UR - https://ijdb.ehu.eus/article/10668979 Y2 - 2024/11/21/18:44:00 ER -