Developmental defects in mouse embryos lacking N-cadherin

Developmental Biology

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 64-78

  Radice, Glenn L ^a,b,d   Rayburn, Helen ^a   Matsunami, Hiroaki ^b   Knudsen, Karen A ^c   Takeichi, Masatoshi ^b   Hynes, Richard O ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION PROTEIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMBRYO; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE TARGETING; HEART DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE INDUCTION;

EID: 0031042948     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.8443     Document Type: Article

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