Targeted disruption in the mouse HoxC-4 locus results in axial skeleton homeosis and malformation of the xiphoid process

Developmental Biology

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 55-64

  Saegusa, Hironao ^a   Takahashi, Naoki ^b   Noguchi, Shigeru ^a,c   Suemori, Hirofumi ^a,c  

^a KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c MEIJI DAIRIES CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE TARGETING; HOMEOBOX; HOX GENE; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON MALFORMATION; VERTEBRA MALFORMATION; VERTEBRATE; XIPHOID PROCESS;

EID: 0029936703     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.0051     Document Type: Article

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