The amino-terminal region of Gli3 antagonizes the Shh response and acts in dorsoventral fate specification in the developing spinal cord

Developmental Biology

Volumn 257, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 343-355

  Meyer, Néva P ^a   Roelink, Henk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

BMP; Chick; gli3; Neural; Pallister Hall Syndrome; Patterning; shh; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NEURAL TUBE; NEUROECTODERM; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0037447892     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-1606(03)00065-4     Document Type: Article

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