Pitx2 determines left-right asymmetry of internal organs in vertebrates

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6693, 1998, Pages 545-551

  Ryan, Aimee K ^a   Blumberg, Bruce ^d   Rodriguez Esteban, Concepción ^d   Yonei Tamura, Sayuri ^d   Tamura, Koji ^d   Tsukui, Tohru ^d   De La Peña, Jennifer ^d   Sabbagh, Walid ^d   Greenwald, Jason ^d   Choe, Senyon ^d   Norris, Dominic P ^b   Robertson, Elizabeth J ^b   Evans, Ronald M ^c,d   Rosenfeld, Michael G ^a   Belmonte, Juan Carlos Izpisúa ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HANDEDNESS; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGAN GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS, TYPE II; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CHICK EMBRYO; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; SITUS INVERSUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032490898     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29004     Document Type: Article

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