The SIL gene is required for mouse embryonic axial development and left- right specification

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6737, 1999, Pages 691-694

  Izraeli, Shal ^a   Lowe, Linda A ^a   Bertness, Virginia L ^a   Good, Deborah J ^b   Dorward, David W ^c   Kirsch, Ilan R ^a   Kuehn, Michael R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EARLY RESPONSE GENE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE MUTATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERATOGENESIS; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE TARGETING; HEART; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MUTAGENESIS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

DANIO RERIO; ERINACEIDAE; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033578069     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/21429     Document Type: Article

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