Expression of the mouse Gli and Ptc genes is adjacent to embryonic sources of hedgehog signals suggesting a conservation of pathways between flies and mice

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 121-135

  Platt, Kenneth A ^a   Michaud, Jacques ^b   Joyner, Alexandra L ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Inst d'Embryologie Molec Cell C   (France)

Author keywords

embryonic development; evolutionary conservation; Gli; Ihh; Ptc; Shh

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIMB BUD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CARTILAGE; EMBRYO; EXTREMITIES; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIMB BUD; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030913610     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(96)00648-X     Document Type: Article

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