The nuclear receptor fetoprotein transcription factor is coexpressed with its target gene HNF-3β in the developing murine liver intestine and pancreas

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 185-188

  Rausa, Francisco M ^a   Galarneau, Luc ^b   Bélanger, Luc ^b   Costa, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drosophila FTZ F1; Embryogenesis; Foregut endoderm; Fork head winged helix domain; FTF; Ganglia; In situ hybridization; Intestine; Liver; Mouse; Neural crest; Pancreas; Yolk sac endoderm

Indexed keywords

FETOPROTEIN; NUCLEAR FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BRANCHIAL ARCH; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; GANGLION; GENE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTESTINE; LIVER; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YOLK SAC;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3-BETA; INTESTINES; LIVER; MICE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PANCREAS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

MURINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032724603     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00209-9     Document Type: Article

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