Hoxa-10 deficient male mice exhibit abnormal development of the accessory sex organs

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-12

  Podlasek, Carol A ^a   Seo, Robert M ^a   Quentin Clemens, J ^a   Ma, Liang ^b   Maas, Richard L ^b   Bushman, Wade ^a,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coagulating gland; Hoxa 10; Morphogenesis; Seminal vesicles

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY SEX ORGAN; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC REGULATION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEMINAL VESICLE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; WOLFFIA;

EID: 0032930106     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199901)214:1<1::AID-DVDY1>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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