Mice lacking link protein develop dwarfism and craniofacial abnormalities

Nature Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 225-229

  Watanabe, Hideto ^a   Yamada, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINK PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE CELL; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; DWARFISM; ENCHONDRAL OSSIFICATION; FACE DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHONDROCYTES; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; DWARFISM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GERM-LINE MUTATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROTEINS; PROTEOGLYCANS;

EID: 0032931819     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/6016     Document Type: Article

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