Embryonic retinoic acid synthesis is essential for early mouse post- implantation development

Nature Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 444-448

  Niederreither, Karen ^a   Subbarayan, Vemparala ^a,b   Dollé, Pascal ^a   Chambon, Pierre ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE TARGETING; HOMEOBOX; INFERTILITY; LIMB BUD; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; VITAMIN METABOLISM;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 10; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 3; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LIMB BUD; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PREGNANCY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; RETINAL DEHYDROGENASE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES; TRETINOIN;

EID: 0032958632     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/7788     Document Type: Article

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