Two lineage boundaries coordinate vertebrate apical ectodermal ridge formation

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1377-1389

  Kimmel, Robin A ^d   Turnbull, Daniel H ^a   Blanquet, Veronique ^b,c   Wurst, Wolfgang ^b,c   Loomis, Cynthia A ^a   Joyner, Alexandra L ^a  

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

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d NONE

Author keywords

AER; Boundary; En1; Engrailed1; Limb; Mouse

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; BONE AND BONES; CELL LINEAGE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EXTREMITIES; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENES, REPORTER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HOMOZYGOTE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTEGRASES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; VIRAL PROTEINS; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 0034214414     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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