Post-natal lethality and neurological and gastrointestinal defects in mice with targeted disruption of the A-Raf protein kinase gene

Current Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 614-617

  Pritchard, C A ^a,b   Bolin, L ^a   Slattery, R ^a,c   Murray, R ^a   McMahon, M ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RAF PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM MALFORMATION; FEMALE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; LETHAL GENE; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; GENES, LETHAL; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RAF; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030133927     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)00548-1     Document Type: Article

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