Targeted deletion of keratins 18 and 19 leads to trophoblast fragility and early embryonic lethality

EMBO Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2000, Pages 5060-5070

  Hesse, Michael ^a   Franz, Thomas ^a   Tamai, Yoshitaka ^b   Taketo, Makoto M ^c   Magin, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b TAIHO PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Embryonic lethal; Intermediate filaments; Keratin; Knockout; Trophoblast giant cell

Indexed keywords

KERATIN;

ABORTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOSKELETON; DECIDUA; DELETION MUTANT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO MORTALITY; EPIDERMIS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TROPHOBLAST;

EID: 0034596918     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.19.5060     Document Type: Article

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