Impaired differentiation of endocrine and exocrine cells of the pancreas in transgenic mouse expressing the truncated type II activin receptor

Follistatin, an antagonist of activin, is expressed in the Spemann organizer and displays direct neuralizing activity

Ali Hemmati‐Brivanlou, Olivia Kelly, Douglas A. Melton · Cell · 1994 · 759 citations

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology +7

Expression cloning of an activin receptor, a predicted transmembrane serine kinase

Lawrence S. Mathews, Wylie Vale · Cell · 1991 · 751 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +9

Identification of a potent Xenopus mesoderm-inducing factor as a homologue of activin A

James C. Smith, Brenda M. J. Price, K. Van Nimmen et al. · Nature · 1990 · 660 citations

Life Sciences, Developmental Biology, Molecular Biology +6

Activins are expressed early in Xenopus embryogenesis and can induce axial mesoderm and anterior structures

Gerald H. Thomsen, Tod M. Woolf, Malcolm Whitman et al. · Cell · 1990 · 592 citations

Life Sciences, Developmental Biology, Genetics +16

Different phenotypes for mice deficient in either activins or activin receptor type II

Martin M. Matzuk, T. Rajendra Kumar, Allan Bradley · Nature · 1995 · 592 citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology +5