Hepatocyte nuclear factor 4α controls the development of a hepatic epithelium and liver morphogenesis

Nature Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 292-296

  Parviz, Fereshteh ^a   Matullo, Christine ^b   Garrison, Wendy D ^a   Savatski, Laura ^c   Adamson, John W ^c   Ning, Gang ^a   Kaestner, Klaus H ^d   Rossi, Jennifer M ^b   Zaret, Kenneth S ^b   Duncan, Stephen A ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 4; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 4ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST; GLYCOGEN LIVER LEVEL; HEPATIC DUCT; HEPATITIS; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; LIVER ARCHITECTURE; LIVER CELL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER HILUS; LIVER SINUSOID; MESENCHYME; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 4; HEPATOCYTES; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LIVER; LIVER GLYCOGEN; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MORPHOGENESIS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PREGNANCY; RETROVIRIDAE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0038757830     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1175     Document Type: Article

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