Targeted expression of activated erbB-2 to the epidermis of transgenic mice elicits striking developmental abnormalities in the epidermis and hair follicles

Cell Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 313-325

  Xie, Wen ^a,b   Wu, Xing ^c   Chow, Louise T ^c   Chin, Edward ^a,b   Paterson, Andrew J ^a,b   Kudlow, Jeffrey E ^a,b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HAIR DISEASE; HAIR FOLLICLE; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTO ONCOGENE; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DISEASE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; EPIDERMIS; EPITHELIUM; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; GENES, ERBB-2; HAIR FOLLICLE; HYPERPLASIA; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; KERATIN-14; KERATINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHENOTYPE; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN;

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