Arsenic-induced alterations in embryonic transcription factor gene expression: Implications for abnormal neural development

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 306-315

  Wlodarczyk, B ^a   Bennett, G D ^a   Calvin, J A ^a   Craig, J C ^a   Finnell, R H ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

arsenic; birth defects; gene expression; murine embryos; neural tube defects; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; EMBRYO; FETUS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOUSE; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; TERATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PREGNANCY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0029938713     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1996)18:4<306::AID-DVG4>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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