Increased levels of apoptosis in the prefusion neural folds underlie the craniofacial disorder, Treacher Collins syndrome

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1473-1480

  Dixon, Jill ^a   Brakebusch, Cord ^b   Fässler, Reinhard ^b   Dixon, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOPHTHALMIA; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; EMBRYO; EXENCEPHALY; GENE CASSETTE; MANDIBULOFACIAL DYSOSTOSIS; MAXILLA; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0034641134     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/9.10.1473     Document Type: Article

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