The homeobox gene Pitx2: Mediator of asymmetric left-right signaling in vertebrate heart and gut looping

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1225-1234

  Campione, Marina ^a   Steinbeisser, Herbert ^b   Schweickert, Axel ^a   Deissler, Kirsten ^a   Van Bebber, Frauke ^c   Lowe, Linda A ^d   Nowotschin, Sonja ^a   Viebahn, Christoph ^e   Haffter, Pascal ^c   Kuehn, Michael R ^d   Blum, Martin ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Department of Cell Biology ^*  (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Homeobox gene; Left right asymmetry; Mouse; Pitx2; Xenopus; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; HEART; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HOMEOBOX; INTESTINE; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ACTIVINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL COMMUNICATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HEART; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INHIBINS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VERTEBRATES; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032952544     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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