Molecular mechanisms underlying limb anomalies associated with cholesterol deficiency during gestation: Implications of Hedgehog signaling

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1187-1198

  Gofflot, Françoise ^a   Hars, Carine ^a   Illien, Françoise ^b   Chevy, Françoise ^b   Wolf, Claude ^b   Picard, Jacques J ^a   Roux, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GENE PRODUCT; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRIPARANOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CHONDROGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FEMALE; GENOMIC IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIA; IN VIVO STUDY; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; LIMB MALFORMATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYDACTYLY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNDACTYLY;

ANIMALS; ANTILIPEMIC AGENTS; BONE AND BONES; CHOLESTEROL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TERATOGENS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRIPARANOL;

ANIMALIA; ERINACEIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0038778353     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddg129     Document Type: Article

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