An LDL-receptor-related protein mediates Wnt signalling in mice

Nature

Volumn 407, Issue 6803, 2000, Pages 535-538

  Pinson, Kathleen I ^a   Brennan, Jane ^a,b   Monkley, Susan ^a,c   Avery, Brian J ^a   Skarnes, William C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLOBOMA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIMB MALFORMATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINA BIFIDA;

ANIMAL; BODY PATTERNING; CROSSES, GENETIC; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, LDL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0034727078     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35035124     Document Type: Article

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