Conserved requirement for EGF-CFC genes in vertebrate left-right axis formation

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 2527-2537

  Yan, Yu Ting ^a   Gritsman, Kira ^a   Ding, Jixiang ^a   Burdine, Rebecca D ^b   Corrales, JoMichelle D ^b   Price, Sandy M ^a   Talbot, William S ^b   Schier, Alexander F ^b   Shen, Michael M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterotaxia; Isomerism; Lateral plate mesoderm; Left right asymmetry; Nodal; Node

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MESODERM; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; AXIS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CYCLOPS; DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033215180     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.19.2527     Document Type: Article

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