Gremlin is the BMP antagonist required for maintenance of Shh and Fgf signals during limb patterning

Nature Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 303-307

  Khokha, Mustafa ^a   Hsu, David ^a,b   Brunet, Lisa J ^a   Dionne, Marc S ^a   Harland, Richard M ^a  

^a University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^b EVOTEC AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN ANTAGONIST; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN; PROTEIN GREMLIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; APICAL ECTODERMAL RIDGE; ARTICLE; CKTSF1B1 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE; GENE MUTATION; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEFORMITY; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; LIMB PATTERNING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETON MALFORMATION; ZONE OF POLARIZING ACTIVITY;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE AND BONES; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FEMALE; FETAL PROTEINS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HINDLIMB; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIMB BUD; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037743636     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1178     Document Type: Article

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