Selective agenesis of the dorsal pancreas in mice lacking homeobox gene Hlxb9

Nature Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-70

  Li, Hao ^a   Arber, Silvia ^b   Jessell, Thomas M ^b   Edlund, Helena ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HOMEOBOX; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER TYPE 2; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HOMOZYGOTE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NOTOCHORD; PANCREAS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032844643     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/12669     Document Type: Article

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