Stage-specific homeotic vertebral transformations in mouse fetuses induced by maternal hyperthermia during somitogenesis

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 216, Issue 4-5, 1999, Pages 336-348

  Li, Zhong Lian ^a,b   Shiota, Kohei ^a,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heat shock; Hox genes; Mouse embryo; Somitogenesis; Vertebral transformation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CELL TRANSFORMATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FETUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPERTHERMIA; MESODERM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SOMITE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VERTEBRA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032713594     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0177(199912)216:4/5<336::aid-dvdy3>3.0.co;2-5     Document Type: Article

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