Pitx2 isoforms: Involvement of Pitx2c but not Pitx2a or Pitx2b in vertebrate left-right asymmetry

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-51

  Schweickert, Axel ^a   Campione, Marina ^a   Steinbeisser, Herbert ^b   Blum, Martin ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FROG; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HOMEOBOX; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS;

EID: 0033991656     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00227-0     Document Type: Article

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