Slug, a zinc finger gene previously implicated in the early patterning of the mesoderm and the neural crest, is also involved in chick limb development

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1821-1829

  Ros, Maria A ^a   Sefton, Mark ^b   Nieto, M Angela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chick embryo; Limb patterning; Progress zone; Slug; Sonic Hedgehog

Indexed keywords

ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MESENCHYME; MESODERM; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE INDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHICK EMBRYO; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HINDLIMB; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIMB BUD; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES; WING; ZINC FINGERS;

ANIMALIA; ERINACEIDAE; GASTROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030949081     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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