Altered cellular proliferation and mesoderm patterning in Polycomb-M33-deficient mice

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 721-729

  Coré, Nathalie ^a   Bel, Sophie ^a   Gaunt, Stephen J ^b   Aurrand Lions, Michel ^a   Pearce, Jonathan ^b   Fisher, Amanda ^c   Djabali, Malek ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anteroposterior specification; Cellular proliferation; Hox genes; M33; Polycomb group genes

Indexed keywords

RETINOIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; DROSOPHILA; FIBROBLAST; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HOMEOBOX; LIMB MALFORMATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MESODERM; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON MALFORMATION; STEM CELL;

ABNORMALITIES; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, LETHAL; LYMPHOCYTES; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; TRETINOIN;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0031049215     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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