No turning, a mouse mutation causing left-right and axial patterning defects

Developmental Biology

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 77-89

  Melloy, P G ^a,b   Ewart, J L ^a   Cohen, M F ^a   Desmond, M E ^b   Kuehn, M R ^c   Lo, C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachyury; Cardiovascular defects; Floorplate; Heart looping; HNF 3 ; Laterality; Left tight patterning; Lefty; Mouse embryos; Nodal; Notochord; Sonic hedgehog

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; HEART; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031906412     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8787     Document Type: Article

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