Morphological diversity of the avian foot is related with the pattern of msx gene expression in the developing autopod

Developmental Biology

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-41

  Gañan, Yolanda ^a   Macias, Domingo ^a   Basco, Ricardo D ^a   Merino, Ramón ^b   Hurle, Juan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; BMP; Chick embryo; Chondrogenesis; Limb development; TGF

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CHICK EMBRYO; CHONDROGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCK; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FOOT; GENE EXPRESSION; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMNIOTA; ANAS SP.; ANIMALIA; AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032054908     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8843     Document Type: Article

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