Cre-loxP-mediated inactivation of the α6A integrin splice variant in vivo: Evidence for a specific functional role of α6A in lymphocyte migration but not in heart development

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 253-266

  Gimond, Clotilde ^a   Baudoin, Christian ^a   Van Der Neut, Ronald ^a,b   Kramer, Duco ^a   Calafat, Jero ^a   Sonnenberg, Arnoud ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Integrin; Knockout; Laminin receptor; Lymphocyte; Migration

Indexed keywords

INTEGRIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HEART DEVELOPMENT; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LYMPHOCYTE MIGRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; DESMOSOMES; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; EPIDERMIS; EXONS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HEART; INTEGRASES; INTEGRIN ALPHA6; INTEGRINS; KERATINOCYTES; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SKIN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRAL PROTEINS; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032487578     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.143.1.253     Document Type: Article

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