Roles of Pax genes in nephrogenesis

Experimental Nephrology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 86-91

  Rothenpieler, Uwe W ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; KIDNEY; MORPHOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PAX2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PAX5 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PAX8 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX5;

ANIMALS; B-CELL-SPECIFIC ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MORPHOGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0029665660     PISSN: 10187782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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