The one bone spine: A failure of notochord/sclerotome signalling?

Clinical Dysmorphology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 303-314

  David, Karoly M ^a,e   Thorogood, Peter ^b   Stevens, John M ^a   Eisenstein, Stephen ^c   Ransford, Andrew O ^d   Crockard, H Alan ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ROBERT JONES AND AGNES HUNT ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Craniovertebral junction; Klippel Feil; Notochord; Pax; Sclerotome; Segmentation; Somite; Vertebra

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHIALGIA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KLIPPEL FEIL SYNDROME; MALE; NOTOCHORD; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SCLEROTOME; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; THORAX DEFORMITY; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; BONE AND BONES; CHILD; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOTOCHORD; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; SPINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030844980     PISSN: 09628827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019605-199710000-00002     Document Type: Article

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