Sonic hedgehog is essential to foregut development

Nature Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 58-61

  Litingtung, Ying ^a   Lei, Li ^a   Westphal, Heiner ^b   Chiang, Chin ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; ESOPHAGUS MALFORMATION; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; GENE MUTATION; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; LUNG MALFORMATION; MESENCHYME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODERM; ESOPHAGUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; LUNG; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; TRACHEA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0031711075     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/1717     Document Type: Article

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