Inner ear and maternal reproductive defects in mice lacking the Hmx3 homeobox gene

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 621-634

  Wang, Weidong ^a   Van De Water, Thomas ^b   Lufkin, Thomas ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene knockout; Homeobox gene; Inner ear; Mouse; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCLING BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EAR MALFORMATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOLYMPH; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE LOSS; HOMEOBOX; INNER EAR DISEASE; MOTHER; MOUSE; MYOMETRIUM; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; SACCULUS; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; UTERUS HORN; UTRICLE; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EAR, INNER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE TARGETING; GENES, HOMEOBOX; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MYOMETRIUM; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOIDEA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0031933326     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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