Pattern formation: Old models out on a limb

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 133-143

  Niswander, Lee ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL MODEL; APICAL ECTODERMAL RIDGE; BODY POSITION; CELL DEATH; CELL MOTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHICKEN; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COORDINATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FINGER; GENE CONTROL; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; INFORMATION; LIMB; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEFORMITY; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MESENCHYME; MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ULNA; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EXTREMITIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; ERINACEIDAE; GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037306472     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1001     Document Type: Review

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