Gli3 (Xf) and formin (Id) participate in the positioning of the polarising region and control of posterior limb-bud identity

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-21

  Zúñiga, Aimée ^a,b   Zeller, Rolf ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

HoxA; HoxD; Limb bud; Mouse mutant; Patterning; Posterior limb identity; Shh activation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; LIMB MALFORMATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYDACTYLY; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; EMBRYO INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOMOZYGOTE; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FETOPROTEIN; FORMIN 1; GLI3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; GLI3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; GLI3 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOXA11 PROTEIN, HUMAN; HOXA11 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HOXD11 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HOXD13 PROTEIN, MOUSE; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; NERVE PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SHH PROTEIN, HUMAN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HOMOZYGOTE; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; MICE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0032589650     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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