Early specification of limb muscle precursor cells by the homeobox gene Lbx1h

Nature Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 213-216

  Schäfer, Konstanze ^a   Braun, Thomas ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HOMEOBOX; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AVIAN PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EXTREMITIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLES; MYOD PROTEIN; MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTOR 5; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; RNA, MESSENGER; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CHIMAERA; MAMMALIA; PHASIANIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032878926     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/13843     Document Type: Article

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