Targeted disruption of the Wnt2 gene results in placentation defects

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3343-3353

  Monkley, Susan J ^a,b   Delaney, Stephen J ^a   Pennisi, David J ^a   Christiansen, Jeffrey H ^a   Wainwright, Brandon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allantois; Embryogenesis; Gene targeting; IUGR; Mouse; Perinatal death; Placental pathology; Wnt2

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EDEMA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS MEMBRANE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE TARGETING; HEART DEVELOPMENT; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MATERNAL BLOOD; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DEATH; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; UMBILICUS;

ANIMALS; GENES, LETHAL; HEART; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUNG; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLACENTA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; TROPHOBLASTS; WNT2 PROTEIN;

ANIMALIA; UMBILICUS;

EID: 0029911964     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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