The Fused toes (Ft) mouse mutation causes anteroposterior and dorsoventral polydactyly

Developmental Biology

Volumn 251, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 129-141

  Grotewold, Lars ^a   Rüther, Ulrich ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fused toes; Limb development; Mouse mutation; Polydactyly; Programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

FUSED TOES PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN BMP 4; PROTEIN DKK 1; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYDACTYLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036429088     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2002.0817     Document Type: Article

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