Activin is an essential early mesenchymal signal in tooth development that is required for patterning of the murine dentition

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 2636-2649

  Ferguson, Christine A ^a   Tucker, Abigail S ^a   Christensen, Lars ^a   Lau, Anthony L ^b   Matzuk, Martin M ^b   Sharpe, Paul T ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activin; Follistatin; Patterning; Tooth

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; FOLLISTATIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DENTITION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EPITHELIUM; MESENCHYME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0032529168     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.16.2636     Document Type: Article

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