The role of Alx-4 in the establishment of anteroposterior polarity during vertebrate limb development

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 4417-4425

  Takahashi, Motohisa ^b   Tamura, Koji ^a   Büscher, Dirk ^a   Masuya, Hiroshi ^c   Yonei Tamura, Sayuri ^a   Matsumoto, Ken ^b   Naitoh Matsuo, Mayumi ^b   Takeuchi, Jun ^b   Ogura, Keiko ^b   Shiroishi, Toshihiko ^c   Ogura, Toshihiko ^b   Belmonte, Juan Carlos Izpisúa ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alx 4; Chick; Limb development; Mouse; Polarizing activity; shh; Stong's Luxoid

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; POLYDACTYLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CHICK EMBRYO; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXTREMITIES; FEEDBACK; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYDACTYLY; PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ERINACEIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031672928     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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