The Ames dwarf gene, df, is required early in pituitary ontogeny for the extinction of Rpx transcription and initiation of lineage-specific cell proliferation

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1570-1581

  Gage, Philip J ^a   Brinkmeier, Michelle L ^a   Scarlett, Lori M ^a   Knapp, Lauren T ^a   Camper, Sally A ^a,b   Mahon, Kathleen A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology   (United States)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT 1;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DWARFISM; FETUS; GENE FUNCTION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMEOBOX; HOMOZYGOSITY; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; ORGANOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DWARFISM; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUTATION; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PREGNANCY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT-1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029908916     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.10.12.1570     Document Type: Article

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