The paired homeobox gene Uncx4.1 specifies pedicles, transverse processes and proximal ribs of the vertebral column

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2259-2267

  Leitges, Michael ^a   Neidhardt, Lorenz ^a   Haenig, Bénédicte ^a   Herrmann, Bernhard G ^a   Kispert, Andreas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chondrogenesis; Pax1; Pax9; Scleraxis; Skeleton; Somite; Sox9; Vertebra

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHONDROGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HOMEOBOX; HOMOZYGOTE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MALE; MESENCHYME; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERICHONDRIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB; SCLEROTOME; SKELETON MALFORMATION; SPINE; VERTEBRA BODY;

ANIMALS; AXIS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE AND BONES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; GENE TARGETING; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RIBS; SOMITES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034080402     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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