Sonic hedgehog: Restricted expression and limb dysmorphologies

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-20

  Hill, Robert E ^a   Heaney, Simon J H ^a   Lettice, Laura A ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acheiropodia; Lmbr1; Pre axial polydactyly; Sasquatch; Shh

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

CHROMOSOME MAP; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO POLARITY; FINGER; FOOT; FOOT MALFORMATION; GENE LOCUS; HAND; HAND MALFORMATION; HUMAN; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; LIMB MALFORMATION; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYDACTYLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SKELETON; SYNDACTYLY; TOE;

EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ERINACEIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037278166     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-7580.2003.00148.x     Document Type: Review

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